Re: [romconlang] -able

On 15.4.2008 Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Probably has a lot to do with the fact that "spade" just
> doesn't exist IML outside of cards - certainly not as a name for the
> tool, which has always been a "shovel" (despite the differences that
> exist between the referents of those two words when used "properly").
Well, to me _spade_ is a homograph though not a homophone
with its Swedish translation [^spQ:d@\], so it tends to
stick in memory.  FWIW Swedish kids are likely to use
_spade_ for what properly is a _skyffel_ ['Xyff@\l].

No racial overtones intended, of course!


/BP 8^)>
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