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Comment by card_zero

4 months ago

Yes! Wiktionary gives one such Middle English pronunciation here:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/colour#Middle_English

The second vowel, /uː/, is like in "true". (Note also the range of alternate spellings: colur, color, culur, coler, coloure, kolour.)

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