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Re: Borrowing a word

From:Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 26, 2003, 2:32
John Cowan wrote:
> Thomas R. Wier scripsit: > >>Really? I've never heard that, and I've never lived in an >>area with a large concentration of Yiddish speakers. I've >>always heard [hUtsp@] when not [xUtsp@]. > > > I heard my mother the native German speaker (who of course had no > trouble with [x]) say it, and was scandalized. She wasn't the person > to mispronounce a word read at sight, so her pronunciation had to have > a source. (I corrected her at once, of course.)
Reminds me of the Chomsky affair ... [tSomski] vs. original [xomski]. Bizarre. s. -- "Socialism plus electrification equals communism" Stephen Mulraney - Vladimir Il'yich Lenin, after a demonstration w::ataltane.net of the Theremin by its inventor. e:: " at " .net

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