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Re: CHAT: Names of Latin alphabet letters

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Thursday, January 25, 2001, 1:08
Raymond Brown wrote:
> Yep - the Romans hit upon the idea that you could tell if V was /u/ or /w/ > after /k/ by writing the /k/ differently! So CV = /ku/ and QV = /kw/, e.g. > QVI /kwi:/ = who [relative]; CVI /kuj/ = to whom.
Could /wi/ and /uj/ contrast elsewhere? E.g., could tui be ambiguous between /twi/ and /tuj/? -- Cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon A nation without a language is a nation without a heart - Welsh proverb ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42