From: | Thomas Leigh <thomas@...> |
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Date: | Friday, November 26, 2004, 16:30 |
For Sally: According to Joseph Wright's Middle High German Primer, p. 20: "/sk/ became /sx/ in late OHG, for which the spelling adopted in MHG was |sch|. In the twelfth century /sx/ became /S/, but the spelling |sch| was retained." If that's any help! Thomas