Re: A'stou part I

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> I don't understand this question. If you mean "how do we know how it was
> pronounced?"
What I meant was: "How do you know when to use <sy> and when to use <sh>
in a word?", that is, are the words spelt with <sy> derived from earlier
/sj/, while <sh> indicates that it was always /S/, sort of like the
difference between <b> and <v> in Español.

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