Re: RV: Old English
| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 27, 2000, 13:53 |
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On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 21:03:44 -0300, FFlores <fflores@...> wrote:
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>I take this to mean that phonemic /sk/ was always [sk] first, and then
>split into [sc] before front unrounded vowels, [sk] otherwise. (Just
>correct me if I'm wrong.)
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AFAIK, all word-initial _sc_ became [S], irrespective of the following
sound, at least in the dialect(s) ancestral to the language of London.
Actually, I was going to say 'all _sc_ in all positions', but there do
exist a few difficult exceptions like _ask_.
All Modern English words with initial [sk] are borrowings.
Basilius