defiance spelled in old english alphabet

(6) Final w in many disyllables evolved from the Old English letter yogh (ʒ) for g, as in gallows, hallow, tallow, bellows, follow, harrow, borrow, morrow, sorrow, furrow (compare German Galgen, heiligen, Talg, Balg, folgen, Harke, borgen, Morgen, Sorge, Furche). (5) In the name Cowper, ow is uniquely pronounced as oo in Cooper. Final -ow with its non-standard value in low occurs in nearly four times as many words as the standard value in how. (4) In some words, digraphs with w have non-standard values: sew, knowledge, low. (3) Word-finally, w is almost always preferred to u ( thou is a rare exception), but w occurs medially quite often ( tawdry, newt, vowel, powder), and the choice of letter may be arbitrary (compare lour/lower, flour/flower, noun/renown). (2) When the preceding vowel opens a mono-syllable, silent e follows the w: awe, ewe, owe (but note awful, ewer, owing). Forms with u typically precede a consonant, with aw, ew, ow preferred syllable finally: law, saw, taut dew, new, feud cow, how loud. (1) The letter w commonly alternates with u in digraphs after a, e, o to represent three major phonemes.

In English, w normally represents a voiced bilabial semi-vowel, produced by rounding and then opening the lips before a full vowel, whose value may be affected. The name double-u for double v (French double-v) recalls the former identity of u and v, though that is also evident in the cognates flour/flower, guard/ward, suede/Swede, and the tendency for u, w to alternate in digraphs according to position: maw/maul, now/noun. Early printers sometimes used vv for lack of a w in their type. Meanwhile, uu was adopted for /w/ in continental Europe, and after the Norman Conquest in 1066 it was introduced to English as the ligatured w, which by 1300 had replaced wynn. In the 7c, scribes wrote uu for /w/, but from the 8c they commonly preferred for English the runic symbol wynn (ƿ). The Romans had no letter suitable for representing the phoneme /w/, as in OLD ENGLISH, although phonetically the vowel represented by v (as in veni, vidi, vici) was close. The 23rd LETTER of the modern Roman ALPHABET as used for English.

Defiance spelled in old english alphabet