Re: Con-prescriptivism
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 31, 1999, 14:40 |
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Brian Betty wrote:
> Maybe I should change my surname to my grandmother's
> Petzschke (yes, that is 5 consonants in a row... say "Pec-k@)
Yeah. Standard German has /pEtSk@/ (actually three consonants; cf.
"Nietzsche" /nitS@/); is that <c> there supposed to be an affricate
or a stop?
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