Re: Asian Number Systems (was Re: FYI re: Greenberg's Universals)

Barry Garcia wrote:
> Also, I saw an interesting thing today in the local Mexican grocery. I was
> looking for sugar skulls, and saw the sign over the aisle for drinks
> (bebidas). Instead of a b, it was spelled with a v : bevidas.
AIUI, that's a pretty common alternation in Spanish.  There really
should be a reform to abolish <v>, and use <b> for all occurrences, or
vice versa, but <b> seems better than <v>, since <v> looks rather
similar to <u>, especially in handwriting.  For Castilian Spanish, that
one change would make it completely consistent in both directions,
written -> spoken and spoken -> written.

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