Re: English diglossia (was Re: retroflex consonants)
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 3, 2003, 11:36 |
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James Landau scripsit:
> [A]m I going to hear someone tell me they put /'krautOnz/ in their salad?
Why not? Those little nuggets of dried cabbage really spruce up iceberg
lettuce!
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
--_The Hobbit_