Re: YAEPT: "restaurant" et sim

Hi!

Benct Philip Jonsson writes:
>...
> On the subject of children's pronunciation, I read once that
> the Tok Pisin word _abus_ 'animal' is a childish
> pronunciation of _animals_. Creaolist Peter Mühlhäusler
> realized this when his daughter used just that
> pronunciation.
Cool!  It makes sense, but I would never have thought of it for a
concreole.  And it is almost as weird as Þrjótrunn 'aðal' <
lat. animal. :-)

**Henrik