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Re: Saying "Thank you."

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Monday, August 27, 2001, 17:08
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? -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact, at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door. --sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan

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