Re: Borrowing a word
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 31, 2003, 17:43 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Costentin Cornomorus" <elemtilas@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: Borrowing a word
> --- 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/.
In my experience, people in England tend to pronounce it identically to the
Scots.