Re: USAGE: German VhC pronunciation

Carsten Becker said:
> Hello!
>
> From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 11:17 PM
> Subject: Re: USAGE: German VhC pronunciation
>
>  > Mark P. Line scripsit:
>  >
>  > > The digraph 'aa' occurs in
>  > > 'Staat', but I can't think of more examples for that one either.)
>  >
>  > Poking through
>  > ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/doc/dict/german-wordlist.new.gz ,
>  > which is just a wordlist, not a dictionary, I find the following roots
>  > (capitalizations are lost): staat, paar, saat, saal, haar, waage,
>  > waagen, isaak, maar, maas, aal, staal.
>
> I only know "Wagen" (car/cart) or "wagen" (to dare)

"Waagen" is the plural form of "Waage".


-- Mark