【微友提问】：凌老师，have, live, come, some, love, 这些单词为什么不符合重读开音节的发音规律？谢谢！

【答复】：您好！这些单词的发音不符合重读开音节的规则，和英语的词源有关。在现代英语中，保留了一部分古音。或者有其他的原因，见下面的come。

have (v.)

have (v.)

Old English habban "to own, possess; be subject to, experience," from Proto-Germanic *habejanan (source also of Old Norse hafa, Old Saxon hebbjan, Old Frisian habba, German haben, Gothic haban "to have"), 

---habban，habba中，hab是重读闭音节。

live (v.)

Middle English, from Old English lifian (Anglian), libban (West Saxon)

----libban中，lib是重读闭音节。

come (v.)

Old English cuman "to move with the purpose of reaching, or so as to reach, some point; to arrive by movement or progression;" also "move into view, appear, become perceptible; come to oneself, recover; arrive; assemble" (class IV strong verb; past tense cuom, com, past participle cumen)

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The substitution of Middle English -o- for Old English -u- before -m-, -n-, or -r- was a scribal habit before minims to avoid misreading the letters in the old style handwriting, which jammed them together. （在抄写的时候，字母-m-、-n-、或-r-之前，字母u抄写成o，可以避免难以辨识的手写字母挤在一起的情况。）

您自己用连写体手写一下，就能体验到这一点啦。看来，在古代，抄写也是一门技术活呢！

----所以，是使用o代替了u，下方的两个单词love和some，是相同的原因。

love

love (n.)

Old English lufu

love (v.)

Old English lufian

some (adj.)

Old English sum "some, a, a certain one, something, a certain quantity; a certain number;" with numerals "out of" (as in sum feowra "one of four"); from Proto-Germanic *sumaz (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old High German sum, Old Norse sumr, Gothic sums), from PIE *smm-o-, suffixed form of root *sem- (1) "one; as one, together with." For substitution of -o- for -u-, see come.

来源: 凌哥英语