The allophone of /o/ in stressed /-omm/ is thought to have been pronounced ['ɤ],
like the vowel-sound in southern English cut, but closer.
It is found in the following rhyming words:
| Rhyming words with stressed -oemm [-'ɤmm], here spelled -umm (full list) |
||
|---|---|---|
| bumm | MN | blow |
| rumm | MN | rum |
| tumm | AJ | warm |
| Rhyming word with unstressed -oemm [-'ɤmm], here spelled -umm (full list) |
||
|---|---|---|
| godumm | AJ | lukewarm |
Note: the words drumm 'ridge' and stumm 'bend' are spelled with -umm [-'ymm]
in GM20, but in this rhyming dictionary they have been re-spelled
with -ymm [-'ɪmm], for reasons given here.
The following rhyming pair in the texts is found in wholly non-Cornish lines:
| come | PC.1351 | com | ≡ | sum | PC.1352 | sum |
There are 4 other rhyming pairs in the texts,
all with unstressed -um in Latin words.