Re: Sound Change Applier?

Quoting "T. A. McLeay" <conlang@...>:

> Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > Once upon a time I had simple application that allowed you to specify
> > soundchanges that it then applies to input words to automatically produce
> the
> > derived words as output. I'm fairly certain I got it from this list, and
> believe
> > it was called "Sound Change Applier", but I can't now find it on any of my
> > drives. Anyone else recalling the thing and knowing where I could get it
> again,
> > and/or some similar application?
>
> Geoff's Sound Change Applier is available here:
> http://www.cix.co.uk/~morven/lang/sc.html
This looks like what I was looking for. Thanks!

> I don't know how good it is; I almost always do sound changes by hand.
> Allows you to get a more natural (imho) feel with mistakes counted as
> examples of incomplete sound change by diffusion or dialect mixing.
I usually do the same, but right now I've got special nefarious plans.

                                              Andreas

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