Re: Sidestepping Spelling Reform
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 2, 2004, 0:22 |
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Paul Bennett scripsit:
> I couldn't find #sD, #Tl or #Dl, you'll be pleased to hear.
As I said in an earlier posting, D doesn't cluster with anything else
in English. As for #Tl, it all changed to fl in West and North Germanic:
Gothic þliuhan = German fliehen = English flee.
A thly and a thlee in a thlue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the thly, "Let us thlee!"
Said the thlea, "Let us thly!"
So they thlew through a thlaw in the thlue.
(Not that we likely have the slightest idea of the Gothic for fly, flea,
flaw, or flue.)
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