A change that separated Old East Norse ( Runic Swedish / Danish ) from Old West Norse was the change of the diphthong æi ( Old West Norse ei ) to the monophthong e, as in stæin to sten.

But the monophthong remains when inflectional endings are added, thus daze contrasts with days.

This phenomenon never gained universal acceptance, however, so that while forms with the diphthong came to be accepted as standard Italian ( e. g. fuoco, buono, nuovo ), the monophthong remains in popular speech ( foco, bono, novo ).

In Sri Lankan English, they are mostly pronounced with the monophthong / oː / (/ o /-close-mid back rounded vowel ) as / noːt /, / boːt /… This form has received general recognition in the country.

These words, which are also pronounced with a diphthong as / teɪk /, / meɪd /… in BrE and AmE, are generally pronounced with the monophthong / eː /, as / teːk /, / meːd /… (/ e /-close-mid front unrounded vowel, / ɪ /-near-close near-front unrounded vowel )

The Great Vowel Shift changed the L-vocalized diphthongs to their present pronunciations, with becoming the monophthong, and raising to.

* In Belfast, is a monophthong in open syllables ( e. g. day ) but a rising diphthong in closed syllables ( e. g. daze ).

: Further explanation: The diphthong becomes the monophthong in some environments including before nasals ( e. g., downtown ), liquids ( e. g., fowl, hour ) and obstruents ( e. g., house, out, cloudy ).

The terrible power of a gun, the thing that blasted the soul out of a living body, man or beast, was one he never wanted to lose.

The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.

He was a learned man and a very gentle soul.

Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.

Ann Catt was a lonely, devoted soul, never married, conducting a spotless home and devoted to her church, but a perpetual dissenter and born critic.

But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.

Because your soul was made to be filled with God Himself, not religious functions `` about '' Him.

`` God rest her soul, she was a sweet one.

Susan would be visiting her grandmother for only a few days, but even at seven she was a prudent soul ; ;

A tradition at one time observed on this day in England was to leave out soul cakes and sing a song for the dead.

According to Maimonides, an afterlife continues for the soul of every human being, a soul now separated from the body in which it was " housed " during its earthly existence.

MacDougall weighed dying patients in an attempt to prove that the soul was material, tangible and thus measurable.

An early psychical researcher to propose an afterlife hypothesis was Edmund Fournier d ' Albe he wrote that at the moment of death the soul floats into the atmosphere.

In one such theory, put forward by Sir E. B. Tylor, early humans initially, through mere observation, recognized what might be called a soul, life-force, spirit, breath or animus within themselves ; that which was present in the body in life and absent in death.

According to Nemesius, a bishop and Neoplatonist c. 400, Ammonius held that the soul was immaterial.

Some of which are based on Theosophical interpretations and were notably represented by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who made clear throughout his life and his own commentary on the Gita that it was " an allegory in which the battlefield is the soul and Arjuna, man's higher impulses struggling against evil.

Either the soul knew that the body was corrupt, or it did not ( in which case it would be “ laboring under ignorance ”); both of these considerations are cause for divine punishment.

Apollinarism or Apollinarianism was a view proposed by Apollinaris of Laodicea ( died 390 ) that Jesus could not have had a human mind ; rather, that Jesus had a human body and lower soul ( the seat of the emotions ) but a divine mind.

It was presided over by Athanasius and Eusebius of Vercelli, and was directed against those who denied the divinity of the Holy Spirit, the human soul of Christ, and Christ's divinity.

And in our own language ,— for he was familiar with English poetry ,— speaking of the soul ’ s dread departure from the body:

* Honey Cone, an American R & B and soul singing girl group who was most famous for the # 1 hit " Want Ads "

He further asserts that although Gauss firmly believed in the immortality of the soul and in some sort of life after death, it was not in a fashion that could be interpreted as Christian.

Walt Whitman, who was raised by parents inspired by Quaker thought, later wrote: " George Fox stands for something too — a thought — the thought that wakes in silent hours — perhaps the deepest, most eternal thought latent in the human soul.

The throne is not acquired by hereditary right ; no one should be raised to it unless distinguished not only for nobility of birth, but for the goodness of his soul.

Avicennism was also influential in medieval Europe, particular his doctrines on the nature of the soul and his existence-essence distinction, along with the debates and censure that they raised in scholastic Europe.

The first, On the Soul, was written against someone named Macarius Scotus, and the second, The Book on the Soul, addressed to bishop Odo of Beauvais, challenged an idea raised by an anonymous monk of Fly Abbey – that all human beings participate in a universal soul.

Avicennism was also influential in medieval Europe, particularly his doctrines on the nature of the soul and his existence-essence distinction, along with the debates and censure that they raised in scholastic Europe.

He approximated to the Pythagoreans in this, that ( as is clear from his explanation of the soul ) he regarded number as the conditioning principle of consciousness, and consequently of knowledge also ; he thought it necessary, however, to supply what was wanting in the Pythagorean assumption by the more accurate definition, borrowed from Plato, that it is only insofar as number reconciles the opposition between the same and the different, and has raised itself to self-motion, that it is soul.

He and his cousins, soul singers Roger and Willie Hatcher, moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where they were raised.

The question of the nature of reality would be raised, leading to questions such as what is a soul?

"... Orthodox tradition is clear and unwavering in regard to the central point the Dormition: the Holy Virgin underwent, as did her Son, a physical death, but her body – like His – was afterwards raised from the dead and she was taken up into heaven, in her body as well as in her soul.

Originally raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, The Isley Brothers are an American R & B, soul music and funk group.

He raised his son in silence, which allowed him to learn to find his soul.

In the 1960s, Atlanta native Gladys Knight proved one of the most popular Motown recording artists, while Otis Redding, born in the small town of Dawson but raised in Macon, defined the grittier Southern soul sound of Memphis-based Stax Records. R & B singer Ray Charles was born in Albany, GA.

She was raised there and a portion of her essence / soul was corrupted by Belasco, who sought to claim her soul in order to use it as a key to bring forth the Elder Gods to rule Earth.

Seeking to placate them with a show of power, he raised a man from the dead, plucking an innocent soul from the Promised Land, a clear reference to the story of Jesus and Lazarus.

Sir Robert Vansittart, the Foreign Office's chief diplomatic advisor until 1941, gave a series of radio broadcasts in which he said that Germany was a nation raised on " envy, self-pity and cruelty " whose historical development had " prepared the ground for Nazism " and that it was Nazism that had " finally given expression to the blackness of the German soul ".

The professor of medical thought L. Bouman raised the questions of body and soul, and the lector F. J. J.

According to his filecard, it is stated the Golobulus raised Nemesis Enforcer from a pile of dead things and that where his soul should be is actually empty.

The throne is not acquired by hereditary right ; no one should be raised to it unless distinguished not only for nobility of birth, but for the goodness of his soul.

Before the popularity of Nightmares on Wax, George Evelyn was raised listening to soul music.