Re: CHAT: False friends - echos from the mother tounge
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 10, 2003, 5:18 |
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>Hell, even English has 'dam' which is a homophone for 'damn'. OTOH, ass
>was apparently replaced by donkey because some dialects simply lost the
>/r/ in /rs/ (in 'arse'), rather than turning it into something else.
Yeegads, imagine if it had lost the /s/ instead! :)
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