20-02-2026, 12:15 AM
The langues d'oïl certainly would've had a front vowel for the first vowel in the word for "July" by the 15th century. It seems bizarre to me to choose <o> to represent a front vowel. In my opinion this points south to a variety that did not undergo u > y.


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