Thomas R. Wier scripsit:
> 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.
It has also happened on de obscure island of Brooklyn. Yiz got a problem
wit dat?
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