Re: RV: Old English
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 30, 2000, 22:17 |
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Eric Christopherson wrote:
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>You've heard someone pronounce Concepcion like that? I wouldn't think it'd
>be a common enough word in English to justify including it.
I do. When speaking English, anyway.
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>>Also add sj, as in sjambok (a kind of whip) and sk, as in Skien, a
>>Norwegian city.
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>If sjambok is an English word, I would say yes, but not Skien, being a
>foreign place name. If we included foreign place names we could include <x>
>(Portuguese) and most if not all of the Swedish examples already listed, as
>well as others.
OK. I wasn't aware of the No Foreign Placenames rule. But sjambok is
in at least one of my dictionaries as a common noun; derived from a
South African term.
>Also, there's <licorice> /lIk@rIS/.
Well, that can replace sk. :)
Padraic.