Re: Love Those Double Vowels (was: Diving In...)
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 4, 2001, 23:34 |
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On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Josh Roth wrote:
> > (I read something once about a similar thing happening in English, with words
> > like "little" "itty-bitty" "tiny" (originally pronounced with a front vowel)
> > "teeny" (brough back to a front vowel!)
>
> That's a common phenomenon across languages. Another good example is
> Japanese "chibi" for "small". It just *sounds* little. :-)
Like Hungarian /pitsi/ and /kitSi/ for small, /nOd^j/ and /bOro:/ for
large.
---frank
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