Anglish Pronunciation

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 * Without French influence it is highly likely that English would today substitute the initial /dʒ/ in loanwords for another sound. This is because /dʒ/ does not appear in the initial position natively in English. Evidence from Middle English indicates that some Englishmen replaced initial /dʒ/ with /j/, and others with /tʃ/. For example, the word jealous can be found in Middle English spelled as yelouse and chelous.


 * Words borrowed from Latin, like Germania, should be pronounced with /g/ or perhaps sometimes /j/, but not French /dʒ/.


 * There is some evidence that ⟨z⟩ in Old English, though very rarely used, was pronounced as /ts/. Perhaps this is how we would pronounce ⟨z⟩ in loanwords today.


 * Middle English, Laurel Brinton, Alexander Bergs, 2017


 * Supposedly, some words like "mankind" and "husband" had their stress changed due to French. Here is a relevant passage from a book that was cited to me, Hurlebatte: "It is therefore often said that Middle English replaced the [Germanic Stress Rule] with a Romance Stress Rule (e.g. Lass 1992: 83-90), which it imported together with a large number of French and Latin loans in the wake of the Norman Conquest.