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Re: OT: Definitely Not YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?

From:John Leland <leland@...>
Date:Thursday, July 17, 2003, 19:24
According to my AHD "loch" is Scots Gaelic originally, but borrowed early
enough that it had an ME form, which would make it a genuine ModEng word
by my standards
John Leland
 On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:30:58PM +0100, Ian Spackman wrote: > > >I didn't think /x/ occurred in any English words, though, which would > > >make it not an English phoneme. It's a common enough sound that most > > >English speakers have heard it, but not in native words. > > > > > > You don't consider loch an English word? (To take the most obvious > > example.) > > Ah, well, no, I don't. Or didn't. I thought "loch" was Scots Gaelic, not > Scots English. If it's Scots English, then I withdraw my objection to the > inclusion of /x/ as an English phoneme. :) > > -Mark >

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