Re: OT: Definitely Not YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 17, 2003, 23:28 |
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David Barrow wrote:
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> Nik Taylor wrote:
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> > Cw occurs in many native English words. E.g., twin, queen, dwarf,
> > swine, thwart. But, I think those might be the only native Cw
> > combinations.
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> thwart is Old Norse
Well, it's still an assimilated term. And I was only listing those as
examples of Cw combinations, not claiming that those were the only
native words with Cw ...
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