Re: CHAT: barbarisms
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 17, 2001, 22:16 |
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Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> For French words, it's 'last syllable pronounced in French'.
> Guillo"tine, ge"le. However, any French silent -e came to be
> pronounced in Danish (as schwa)
I wonder, were those -e's silent at the time those words were borrowed?
I know that they were originally /@/, but I'm not sure when they were
dropped.
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