Re: Borrowing a word

Staving Andreas Johansson:


>That aside, [f] and [x] are supposed to be quite similar accoustically (I
>guess my brain's damaged for having those both phonemic in my native
>language -
>  they sound perfectly different to me).
Historically, there has been a [G] -> [f] change in some English words,
recorded by fossilized orthography. In other cases [G] simply vanished.

Pete

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