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I think the last bit of the first paragraph needs some editing. There was never an [u] in the plural of mouse/louse at any stage of English—that [u] had been rounded through i-affection at a pre-English stage (or was the “/u/” there a typo for “/i/”?). If you're talking about Old English, it wasn't an [i] either (at least only in some dialects), but [yː]—and not with a subtle [a] before either. That diphthongisation came later, in late Middle English and Early Modern English.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Commented Jul 22, 2016 at 18:53
@Janus Bahs Jacquet ~ thank you, for some reason I switched from the topic of plural to singular in that paragraph. Feel free to edit any existing mistakes
– user180089
Commented Jul 22, 2016 at 19:01

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