On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:17:52 +0200, BP Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
>At 19:15 27.3.2000 -0800, Sally Caves wrote:
>>The "til" suggests
>>Scandinavian influence, and I suspect further influence may
>>have yielded an /sk/ pronunciation instead of an /S/. But
>>that is pure conjecture, and I may be mistaken.
>
>No way to tell, since /sk/ before palatal vowels or /j/ eventually became
>/S/ -- and even [x] in most Swedish! -- in Scandinavian too.
The major contributors were Danish and Icelandic which avoided this
somehow... ;)
[x] in Swedish? Interesting. Where did I see a site about Swedish
dialects?..
>Influences
>may or may not have gone both ways there. The only thing that would be
>tell-tale IMVHO would be a loan word into Scandinavian showing /sj/ or /s/
>for Old English _sc_!
I still hope that some indirect evidence can be found...
>/S/ can be spelled in 18 different ways in Swedish,
So bad? You're saying awful things ;)
>/BP
>
>"Doubt grows with knowledge" -Goethe
Basilius