Re: question - Turco-Japanese (British Vikings, 400 AD)

Paul Bennett wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 07:28:21 +0000, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
>
>> Well, the English wasn't /z/ - it was /s/, pronounced [z] (though I
>> think this actually varied dialectally)
>
>
> I'm not sure the general population at the time were accomplished enough
> phoneticians to know what an allophone was. Sounds like |z|? It's a |z|.
>
Well, it was written <s>, which suggests probably that it was treated as
the same sound.

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