Re: German style orthography
| From: | J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 10, 2004, 15:03 |
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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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