Re: most looked-up words

Hi!

Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> writes:
> Quoting Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>:
>...
> > Hmm, I never heard that pronunciation.  It's usally /'gy:rOs/ or /'gi:rOs/.
>
> Might been just students, or a local thing. There's plenty of Greeks in Aachen,
> afterall.
Hmm, Aachen?  There are some German dialect that regularly do /g/ ->
[j] in certain contexts that I fail to remember now.  I'm also not
sure, but probably 'Öcher' dialect is one of these.  Maybe that's the
profane reason?

(There are also those that regularly do the reverse /j/ -> [g], BTW.
Some people from my home region do this (e.g. [gEts] for /jEtst/
|jetzt|).)

**Henrik