Re: Borrowing a word

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.

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