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Re: Orthography help needed

From:Amanda Babcock <ababcock@...>
Date:Friday, April 9, 2004, 18:35
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 07:13:15PM +0100, Tim May wrote:

> Yes, of course. I'm aware of "with", and I pronounce it as you do. > What I meant by "unusual" is that it's the only example I can think > of. The point I was trying to make is that there's no orthographic > convention to represent final /D/ in these situations; <with> is the > exception, and is presumably able to survive as such precisely because > it's a common word.
Soothe vs. sooth. Seems like the final e might be the orthographic convention, except that would only work with a strong vowel before the 'th', wouldn't it? Amanda

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Tim May <butsuri@...>