From: "Tristan Alexander McLeay" <zsau@...>
> At 06.10 a.m. 15.10.2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >Since "yo" is mainly used in Spanish for emphasis, it is not uncommon for
> >it to get a more "advanced" pronunciation such as [Z], even if other y/ll
> >is [j] or fricative [j\].
>
> Does this 'yo' of Spanish relate in any way to the 'yo' of English? Or is
> it just a co-incidence?
Er, it shouldn't. "Yo" in Spanish means "I". "Yo" in English means "hey"
(basically).
If anything I'd expect Eng. "yo" to be a mangled form of "you".
*Muke!