Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>:
> Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> * a final "v" receives a superfluous "e" ("love")
>
> It's not superfluous there, it's preventing "love" from looking like
> it should rhyme with "of".
I'm pretty sure that wasn't the original motivation. If I had to guess,
the reason was the possible visual confusion with "w".
An interesting tidbit is that the English spelling demonstrates how the
[o] sound regularly shifted into an [ĘŚ] sound in front of nasals and
"v":
dove
love
hover
cover
shove
above
sponge
come
among
front
done
son
monk
monkey
Again, exceptions abound:
on
wrong
song
gone
long
Marko
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