Re: Borrowing a word

From: "Costentin Cornomorus" <elemtilas@...>
> --- Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> wrote:
> > How do you think a language would go about
> > borrowing the word [xuno] when
> > the language doing the borrowing has no /x/
> > phoneme nor any /h/
> > either?
>
> English (standard American, RP) doesn't have [x],
> we'd probably borrow it as /kunow/. Compare with
> Scots /lOx/ > English /lOk/.
Another option, if applicable, is to use a spelling pronunciation.

e.g. very commonly "chutzpah" is pronounced with initial [tS] where a [x] is
originally called for.



    *Muke!
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