Note 12 — Chapter III · MIDDLE OF NINETEENTH CENTURY

For example, the correct appreciation of Scandinavian o sounds and especially the recognition of syllables without any vowel, for instance, in G. mittel, schmeicheln, E. heaven, little; this important truth was unnoticed by linguists till Sievers in 1876 called attention to it and Brugmann in 1877 used it in a famous article.