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Re: OT: German reputation

From:caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 14, 2004, 15:02
Stephen Mulraney wrote:

>Ah, I guess Syvia's explanation that it comes from "a diós" >accounts for the "-ss" then. Also, since the Spanish form has >the "stress one syllable further away from the initial "a" than the >French "a dieu" does, it helps explain why the first syllable >disappeared in the German/Dutch form...
IMO that is not correct. I don't believe that "adios" is a 3- syllable word. I've always understood the "i" to indicate a palatalization of the "d." One of my linguistic pet peeves is to hear Americans pronounce the Italian name Giovanni as gee-o-van-ni. Charlie

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>