Re: English spelling reform

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> > Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit!
> >
>
> LOL (after a check at a Latin dictionary ;)) )
Also see Cic. in Catilinam, I.

> Is there anything on the web about P-Italic languages? I think they are
> all extinct aren't they?
They are.  The only ones we know much about are Umbrian from Central
Italy and Oscan from the ankle of Southern Italy, just north of the
old Greek-speaking area.  But we do have quite a lot of inscriptions.
Here are some: http://www.netaxs.com/~salvucci/VTLinscc.html

> But my name itself comes ultimately from Greek. I
> doubt that the change would still have to occur by the time of the borrowing...
True.  But if all initial /k/ was lost by the sound-change, then it's not
so improbable that a foreign word with [k] would be borrowed with /p/.
This happened in reverse in Old Irish, where the name "Patricius" was
originally borrowed as "Cotharig", or something similar; indeed, "Padrig"
was perhaps the first p-initial in the language since proto-Celtic days.

--
John Cowan  jcowan@reutershealth.com  www.reutershealth.com  www.ccil.org/~cowan
Consider the matter of Analytic Philosophy.  Dennett and Bennett are well-known.
Dennett rarely or never cites Bennett, so Bennett rarely or never cites Dennett.
There is also one Dummett.  By their works shall ye know them.  However, just as
no trinities have fourth persons (Zeppo Marx notwithstanding), Bummett is hardly
known by his works.  Indeed, Bummett does not exist.  It is part of the function
of this and other e-mail messages, therefore, to do what they can to create him.