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This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
Old English phonology is the pronunciation system of Old English, the Germanic language spoken on Great Britain from around 450 to 1150 and attested in a body of ...
This category is for feminine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language feminine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
Pages in category "Old English given names" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Acca; Æbbe;
In fact, there’s a whole theory to support the trend of bringing new life to old-fashioned baby names dubbed the 100-Year Rule; per the rule, it takes 100 years for an old-fashioned name to ...
r /r/ The exact nature of Old English /r/ is not known; it may have been an alveolar approximant [ɹ] as in most modern English, an alveolar flap [ɾ], or an alveolar trill [r]. s /s/, including its allophone [z] sc sc /sk/ (rare) [34] At the start of a word, the usual pronunciation is palatalized sċ /ʃ/.
Rare and Unique Baby Girl Names. Raven: This Old English name means "dark-haired or wise." Amber: Of Arabic, English, and Gaelic origin, this name can mean "jewel" or "fierce." Ruby: This name is ...
This is a sublist of List of irregularly spelled English names. These common suffixes have the following regular pronunciations, which are historic, well established and etymologically consistent. However, they may be counterintuitive, as their pronunciation is inconsistent with the usual phonetics of English.