Re: Using word generators (was Re: Semitic root word list?)

On 1/10/07, veritosproject@gmail.com <veritosproject@...> wrote:
> On 1/10/07, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:
> > The thing I always found fascinating about /sf/ is that it was
> > probably pretty alien to English when it was introduced, but
> > it survived, whereas /sr/ certainly did not in things like Sri
> > Lanka =/Sr/ and srong > saraong /s@r/.  I know some people
> > that pronounce Sri Lanka with an /sr/ sequence--I certainly
> > try to--but on the whole, I'd say most shift it to to the allowable
> > /Sr/.  Could it be the presence of words like "svelte" that allowed
> > this?
>
> Hmm, strange. I have no problem with /sr/, and I even say /tr/ instead
> of /tSr/...without a special effort.
>
/sr\/ is fine with me, although I can think of only one other word in
which I have it: [sr\IndZ].  You know, what you inject yourself with.

-- Pat

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