Re: RV: Old English
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 30, 2000, 4:45 |
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My question was how you (or was it someone else?) could claim that
English had 24 ways of making the /S/ sound. I could come up with
eight.
Sally
BP Jonsson wrote:
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> At 17:15 28.3.2000 -0800, Sally Caves wrote:
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> >1. sh: shy
> >2. c: precious, crucial, ocean
> >3. ti: motion
> >4. sci: luscious
> >5. sch: schedule (Brit.)
> >6. ss: session, mission
> >7. ch: charade, cache (borrowed from French; are there any native
> >examples?)
> >8. s: sure, sugar
>
> I must say that (2) and (6) surprise me somewhat; isn't it _ci_ and _ssi_
> which map to /S/, much as _ti_ in (3)?
> (or rather: _ci | ti | ssi_ -> S /_V)
>
> /BP
>
> "Doubt grows with knowledge" -Goethe
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