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Re: German style orthography

From:J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...>
Date:Friday, December 10, 2004, 15:03
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:59:28 +0100, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:

>This, alas, is no longer true in the age of Neudeutsch - sufficient numbers >of speakers retain initial [s] in loans like _Sex_ ([sEks], contrasting >with _sechs_ [zEks]) that Duden recognizes it.
What a surprising minimal pair! I also have initial /s/ in certain loans, e.g. _Cidre, Cedille, City_, but certainly not in _Sex_ (which to me is homophonous to _sechs_ "six"), but now that you mention it I think I remember I've heard this pronunciation on the media from Germany. I've been very surprised when I heard initial /s/ in the name _Soonwald_ (a region in the Hunsrück 'mountains'). gry@s: j. 'mach' wust

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