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??? Re: French spelling scheme

From:Andrew Chaney <adchaney@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 9, 2001, 7:10
I don't think you meant to send this to me.


on 5/9/01 1:56, Christophe Grandsire at christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR wrote:

> En réponse à BP Jonsson <bpj@...>: > >> >> Swedish borrowed a lot of French words during the 18th century before >> French underwent the parallel change, and Swedish pronunciation and >> respelling still reflect this e.g. in _fåtölj_. >> > > Wow! It took me a while to recognize the word "fauteuil" :)) . Good that I > know > a little about Swedich orthography :)) . Anyway I find it a nice word when I > see it written like that in Swedish :) . > > Christophe. > > http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr