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Re: bless (adj)

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 25, 2004, 18:32
Andreas Johansson wrote:


> "Ice tea" look awfully much like a normal compound to me, especially given > German _Eistee_, Swedish _iste_ (a little voice in my head says it should be > spelt _isté_ - BP? My lexicon doesn't list it), both lit "icetea".
I'm not much of a spelling normativist when I don't have my payed translator hat on, which I haven't had for months. I haven't even reinstalled the Academy wordlist and can't find the paper copy (which is prob'ly out of date anyway) either. On gut feeling I would just spell it _iste_, despite the likeness to a Latin demonstrative. The spelling _té_ for the simplex is however certainly deprecated. The same seems to be the case with both _Athen_ and _Atén_ and _Athén_. I wonder what all the roar in the newspapers over Ekhnaten's god is about... -- /BP 8^) -- B.Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant! (Tacitus)

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