| From: | julien eychenne <eychenne.j@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 21, 2002, 16:23 |
> English's had an change [x]>[f] in words like "tough". _Acoustically_ these > aren't very far appart, so the change prolly began as a mishearing. The > Gaelic thingie may have a similar explanation.You must be true, because [T] and [f] are not so far too (acoustically). Russian has <arifmetika> for arithmetics, and I remember vat I pronouced English wiv labiodentals for a long time ;).
| Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...> |