Re: CHAT: Names of Latin alphabet letters
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 25, 2001, 1:08 |
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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/?
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