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Re: German style orthography

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Saturday, December 11, 2004, 3:15
J. 'Mach' Wust scripsit:

> I also imagine, again without any source, that the voiced stops/fricatives > were always present in Low German. Maybe their occurrence in the actual > "standard" pronunciation is due to a Low German substratum?
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