Re: CHAT: Essentialist Explanation
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 9, 2002, 18:20 |
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On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 02:47 , Keith Gaughan wrote:
> From: Pavel Iosad [mailto:pavel_iosad@MAIL.RU]
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>> [snip}
> Manx orthography is essentially an attempt by the English to
> decipher Gaelic orthography that failed horribly.
Tho in fact the guy who devised Manx orthography was _Welsh_ (which shows
up the use of {y} = /@/). He was Bishop of Sodor & Mann at the time, but
I
forget his name.
Ray.
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