Re: The letter j\
| From: | Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 22, 2002, 20:37 |
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Roger Mills sekalge:
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This matter was recently mentioned on the "Ideolengua" Spanish list-- if
I
read everything aright, there is another minimal contrast <hierba>
'grass'
vs. <yerba> same word, different spelling (I think more used in Latin
America).
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They're different words. They have different pronunciations. Yerba should
be /jerBa/ or /Zerba/, and hierba should be /ierba/. Just a slight
dialectic difference, of course, but they are different.
That's not quite the same as American plow vs. British plough, because
those have the same pronunciation.
The nitpicking
Chris Wright