--- Doug Dee <AmateurLinguist@...> wrote:
> Sometimes words are borrowed with the illegal
> clusters intact, thus changing
> the rules of what's legal in the borrowing
> language.
Quite. But English is a Special Case - in almost
all respects! We let anyword in.
> When I first learned the word "sphere" as a
> child, I was annoyed by it,
> because I felt strongly that words beginning
> with /sf/ just aren't allowed. But
> someone let the word into the English language
> anyway.
Not just sph- but sf- as well (from Italian).
Padraic.
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