Re: RV: Old English
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 30, 2000, 15:56 |
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At 17:47 29.3.2000 -0600, Eric Christopherson wrote:
>>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.
Agree. How would you Anglos pronounce Skien, BTW?
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
<mailto:melroch@...>melroch@my-deja.com
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