Re: THEORY: German final -g (was: THEORY: no more URs!)

Raymond Brown scripsit:

> >That is an artificial rule of the standard language, a compromise
> >between the North, which pronounces all final /g/ as [k], and the
> >South, which pronounces all final /g/ as [C ~ x].
>
> I hate having to disagree with John, but while we lived in South Wales we
> had several German students stay with us; they all came from Swabia,
> Bavaria or Austria (i.e. the south) and without exception pronounced final
> -ig /Ik/.
Yes, of course, I reversed the North and the South, as your quotation
from Fox shows.

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