Well, it depends on one's dialect. I am from Bucks County, PA, outside of Philadelphia, and have discovered in recent years that I use some archaic pronunciation. I tend to say "son" for sun, but "SON-ne" for the male child. The "ne" is slight, but can be heard if you listen carefully. I noticed that the spelling of "son" in the 1650s was "sonne." People from my area are also rhotic and prono
In old days, before printing, scribes had to disambiguate strokes when two success letters have strokes. <v>, <u> and <n> have a stroke '|'. To avoid this, they used <o> instead of <u>. That's why we have so many words of <oC> type, which rhyme with <uC> type.
one, none, done, some, son, sponge somerville, come love