Re: CHAT: Names of Latin alphabet letters
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 25, 2001, 20:56 |
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Raymond Brown wrote:
> SV is sometimes /su/ as in SVM and, less often, /sw/ as in SVADERE.
> Therefore, in theory, SVI could be ambiguous. In practice only /sui:/
> exists in the language.
Does the word "sui" end in a long vowel, or is the colon an error, or
what?
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