* <<F68.1005>> Vowels and alphabet names                            
:hiketep:

Looked through a Teach-Yourself Old English book today to get a look 
at the vowels.  Not surprisingly, the vowels are somewhere between 
modern English and Scandinavian languages. 

| Anglo-Saxon | HIKETEP |                           | Match? |
|-------------+---------+---------------------------+--------|
| Æ           | A       | cAt                       | no     |
| A           | -       | "a vowel between A and O" | -      |
| E           | E       | sEt                       | yes    |
| I           | I       | dIn                       | yes    |
| O           | O       | nOt                       | yes    |
| U           | Ø       | pUt                       | no     |
| -           | U       | pUtt                      | -      |
| Y           | -       | French "tu"               | -      |
| Ǣ           | Æ       | Canadian "eh" (long)      | yes*   |
| Ā           | O       | fAther (long)             | no**   |
| Ē           | -       | sEt (long)                | -      |
| Ī           | Y       | machIne                   | no     |
| Ō           | Ö       | Canadian "oh"             | yes*** |
| Ū           | W       | rUle                      | no     |
| Ȳ           | -       | French "lUne"             | -      |

 *   matches without the diacritic
 **  I've conflated Anglo-Saxon O and Ā into HIKETEP-Latin O.
 *** diacritic is different, but the essence is the same: "marked O"

Maybe I want to get my Æ in-line with Anglo-Saxon Æ after all.  Or 
maybe not.  The two alphabets are a little more than 50% alike, which 
makes me want to use as many of the same sound/glyphs as possible, 
but ...50% is still quite a difference. 

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The name HIKETEP sucks. 

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