Re: Saying "Thank you."
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 26, 2001, 0:23 |
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"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> As he said, it does indeed arise from external borrowing. IIRC, the only
> known cases of a fricative to stop shift occur in Papua New Guinea. It is
> at any rate an extremely rare type of sound change.
Well, many dialects of English use /t/ and /d/ for /T/ and /D/. That
particular fricative -> stop change doesn't seem that odd.
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