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Here's a series of lists of words that have underwent (or haven't underwent) specific phonological developments.
Words with the old pronunciation of "one"
The pronunciation under discussion is /oːn/ (which would have resulted in RP /əʊn/, GA /oʊn/, NZE /ɐʉn/)
anon preserves a variant pronunciation with a low short vowel (compare British dialectal /wɒn/)
Words showing developments of Middle English /uːv/
Modern English /ʌv/) (really more of /ɐv/ in most dialects)
Unknown; word doesn't survive in the standard language.
Words where <t> is not pronounced with (historical) /θ/
Variably:
Now fully with /θ/ or its equivalent:
- author etc. (most Greek/Latin loans with belong here; they all originally had /t/; here spelling pronunciation was assisted by Modern Greek having /θ/ in the relevant words)
Words where <au> is pronounced with /ɒ/ in RP/AuE/NZE
Words where <wa> is pronounced /wɒ/ even after velars
Words where <wo> isn't pronounced /wɒ/ (except after velars)
Recent borrowings aren't included here.
Words with unstressed /ʌ/
Words with Middle English /ɛː/ as /ɛɪ/
Some words that have been respelled are missing from this list.
- break
- drain (the spelling is deceptive)
- Eames (sometimes)
- fake (possibly; if so the spelling is deceptive)
- faze (the spelling is deceptive)
- great
- Jane (the spelling is deceptive)
- lea, ley (sometimes)
- Leahy (possibly; confer the variant Lahey, which has a spelling indicative of ME /aː/)
- maintain (possibly; if so the spelling is deceptive)
- steak (possibly)
- yea, yay
- Yeats (sometimes)
Words with Middle English /ɛː/ or /eː/ as /ɛəɹ/
Words with Middle English /ɛː/ as /ɛ/
Incomplete; to be completed at a later date. Some of these words were never lengthened in some ME dialects.
Words with preservation of Middle English unstressed vowels