Prai Jei
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| Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 4:27 am
Post subject: Re: 'D and Aye |
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dcw (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
<538@myrtle.ukc.ac.uk>:
| Quote: | In article <dkif01$pr3$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk>,
Prai Jei <pvstownsend@zyx-abc.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
At one time the final -ed was *pronounced* as a separate syllable. It must
have been a rather weak syllable for it was frequently dropped in poetry
or song, and it was originally for this purpose that the apostrophised
form was us'd.
I suspect that something similar happened with -es, giving rise to the
apostrophised possesive.
David
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A popular misconception through the ages - even Shakespeare fell for it -
was that the 's was a contraction of a separate word "his", e.g. "The King
his realm".
In fact of course your version is correct.
--
Pelagiarism: passing off somebody else's heresy as your own
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