Hi!
Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> writes:
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> ... but the actual _spelling_ is little worse than today's (in some ways better,
> becuase you don't get funky loans like _Pager_ ['pe:dZ6] with any frequency).
Ouch! The not-childish-or-last-century-sounding pronunciation would
be /"pEI.dZ@R/ -> ["pEIdZ6]. Some phonems are borrowed, too. :-)
> every word, whereas German has a not negible fraction of words with ambiguous
> spellings.
Yes. Vowel length is the worst of all. And some loans cannot be
written with a German spelling, because there is no grapheme for the
phonemes that are used. E.g. 'City' (='city center') /"sIti:/. There
is no way to write initial /s/.
**Henrik