Re: the lonely affricate
| From: | Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 24, 1999, 21:37 |
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On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Bryan Maloney wrote:
> Not quite an affricate (if I remember my categories aright), but some
> forms of Old English did not distinguish between [s] and [z], or so I've
> read.
>
Actually, it was that annoying differences between phoneme and the other
things that I can never remember.
To simplify, /s/ is voiced between vowels or next to another voiced
letter. So "hus" is /hus/ but "huse" (dat. of hus) is /huz@/.