Friday, July 20, 2012

Stove

OH:

trove, drove, dove, strove, stove, jove, shrove
prove, move, remove, 
clove, cove, alcove,
hove, wove, rove,


schwa:

glove, oven, dove (pigeon), above, shove

Why there is discrepancy?

love, grove, move: three different vowels due to ambiguity in the spelling system

Norman spelling system prohibited writing u before m, n, v: son, love, come


cf. Wiki

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