Re: OT: Definitely Not YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 18, 2003, 5:00 |
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David Barrow wrote:
> > > > 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.
> Sorry, I thought that is what you believed when you said "But, I think
> those might be the only native Cw combinations"
I should've been more precise. What I meant was that the combinations
occurring in those words were the only Cw combinations, e.g., /tw/,
/kw/, /dw/, /sw/, and /Tw/. Altho, I think /Tw/ is probably only in
words of Old Norse origin, but they're still assimilated terms.
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