Re: Vallian (was: How to minimize "words")

On 26/02/07, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> On 2/26/07, Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...> wrote:
> > That would make "childre-" suppletive, as well, I suppose.
>
> AFAIK its merely a case of adding what were two plural morphemes:
> child + -(e)r [cf. German "Kinder"] + -en [cf. "oxen, brethren"].
> Dutch does the same thing occasionally: kinderen, eieren.
>
> > While I'm at it, anyone know how to get IPA "open O" (X-SAMPA /O/")?
>
> Copy and paste from charmap, for example: ɔ
>
Ah, found it: ɔ. Should have been looking under Arial Unicode, not Arial!

Thanks!

Jeff


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