Re: bless (adj)

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(which is prob'ly out of date anyway) either.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...


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/BP 8^)
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B.Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se

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                                             (Tacitus)

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