Voyager
KATHARINE KERR
A Time of War
Voyager
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Copyright © Katharine Kerr 1993
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Source ISBN: 9780586211977
Ebook Edition © JULY 2014 ISBN: 9780007375370
Version: 2019–10–08
For Richard Wilfred Ashton
My grandfather
Contents
Part Three: Puella
Part Four: Via
Part Five: Carcer
Part Six: Caput Draconis
Appendices: Historical Notes
Glossary
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by the Author
About the Publisher
Vowels are divided by Deverry scribes into two classes: noble and common. Nobles have two pronunciations; commons, one.
A as in father when long; a shorter version of the same sound, as in far, when short.
O as in bone when long; as in pot when short.
W as the oo in spook when long; as in roof when short.
Y as the i in machine when long; as the e in butter when short.
E as in pen.
I as in pin.
U as in pun.
Vowels are generally long in stressed syllables; short in unstressed. Y is the primary exception to this rule. When it appears as the last letter of a word, it is always long whether that syllable is stressed or not.
Diphthongs generally have one consistent pronunciation.
AE as the a in mane.
AI as in aisle.
AU as the ow in how.
EO as a combination of eh and oh.
EW as in Welsh, a combination of eh and oo.
IE as in pier.
OE as the oy in boy.
UI as the North Welsh wy, a combination of oo and ee.
Note that OI is never a diphthong, but is two distinct sounds, as in carnoic,
