Note 42 — Chapter XI · THE FOREIGNER

Cf. against the assumption of Keltic influence in this instance Meyer-Lübke, Die Romanischen Sprachen, Kultur der Gegenwart, p. 457, and Ettmayer in Streitberg’s Gesch. 2. 265. H. Mutschmann, Phonology of the North-Eastern Scotch Dialect, 1909, p. 53, thinks that the fronting of u in Scotch is similar to that of Latin ū on Gallic territory, and like it is ascribable to the Keltic inhabitants: he forgets, however, that the corresponding fronting is not found in the Keltic spoken in Scotland. Moreover, the complicated Scotch phenomena cannot be compared with the French transition, for the sound of [u] remains in many cases, and [i] generally corresponds to earlier [o], whatever the explanation may be.