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 ===== The History of MERP Dialect =====
-The first compiled wordlist was published in "Lords of Middle-Earth: Vol. III -- Hobbits, Dwarves, Ents, Orcs & Trolls" (ICE8004, 1989). Out of ~150 words almost a half were Icelandic borrowings and few were Sindarin words. These Sindarin words were pluralized according to Sindarin rules.
+The first wordlist was published in "Lords of Middle-Earth: Vol. III -- Hobbits, Dwarves, Ents, Orcs & Trolls" (ICE8004, 1989). It was compiled from the previous publications. Out of ~150 words almost a half were Icelandic borrowings and few were from Sindarin. These Sindarin words were pluralized according to Sindarin rules.
-The second wordlist was published in 2nd Edition supplement book "Angmar" (ICE2018, 1995). It contained more than 1200 new words, almost 500 of which were Albanian borrowings. However some of these Albanian words appeared in mass in the 1st Edition book "Gorgoroth" (ICE3112, 1990) for the first time.
+The second wordlist was published the same year in supplement book "Empire of the Witch-king" (ICE4020, 1989) reprinted in 2nd Edition as "Angmar" (ICE2018, 1995). It contained more than 1200 new words, almost 500 of which were Albanian borrowings. So it's safe to assume that Orkish dialect of MERP is primarily spoken in Angmar. However, the same words were used in the Gorgoroth supplement from 1990.
-MERP had plenty of NPCs and bosses names (Orcs and Trolls) as well as names for their tribes, with many of them untranslated.
+MERP also had a plenty of NPCs and bosses' names (Orcs and Trolls) as well as names for their tribes, with many of them untranslated.
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 ===== Phonology =====
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-The information under this header is based on supplement book "Gorgoroth" (ICE3112).
+The information under this header is based on supplement book "Gorgoroth" (ICE3112, 1990).
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 ==== Vowels ====
-It seems that vowels in MERP tend to shift back and lower. Accent marks (acute) are closer to diphtongs, rather than just long vowels, which are marked with circumflex.
+It seems that vowels in MERP tend to shift back and lower. Accent marks (acute) are closer to diphthongs, rather than just long vowels, which are marked with circumflex.
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 ==== Pluralizing nouns ====
-st Edition of MERP sometimes applied Sindarin rules on pluralizing nouns (at least borrowed from Elvish languages), but in whole they were irregular. "Orcish Nations" site provides interesting rules of pluralizing nouns which differentiates between subject and object. It used terms "soft" and "hard" consonants, which is usually applied to palatalization, but neither Black Speech nor MERP inventions have them, so I suppose they refer to unvoiced and voiced consonants.
+st Edition of MERP sometimes applied Sindarin rules on pluralizing nouns (at least borrowed from Elvish languages), but in whole they were irregular. "Orcish Nations" site provides interesting rules of pluralizing nouns which differentiates between subject and object. It used terms "soft" and "hard" consonants, which are usually applied to palatalization, but neither Black Speech nor MERP inventions have them, so I suppose they refer to unvoiced and voiced consonants.
 ^ Word ending        ^  Subject  ^  Object  ^

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