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Pronounce these long sounds with increasing rapidity, and reed will approach rid, while mate will approach met. The Old English short vowel sounds are: a as in artistic: habban, to have. æ as in mankind: dæg, day. e, ę as in let: stelan, to steal, sęttan, to set. i as in sit: hit, it. o as in broad (but shorter): god, God.
The letters c, g, and h represented a number of sounds we now spelling using different characters, depending on their context and etymology: c could represent the sounds we commonly spell using k [k] (Old English cyning, Modern English king) or ch [ʧ] (Old English ciese, Modern English cheese).
If 'c' comes before a back vowel (a, o, u) or a consonant, it is pronounced like. [k] , for example, cyning, cræft, cnapa. G can be pronounced one of three ways depending on what it occurs in a word. Before front vowels (i, e, æ), the 'g' is pronounced. [j] , like a modern 'y' in 'yet'.
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