Re: Borrowing a word
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 22, 2003, 3:51 |
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Peter Bleackley wrote:
> Historically, there has been a [G] -> [f] change in some English words,
> recorded by fossilized orthography. In other cases [G] simply vanished.
Actually, {gh} was /x/, not /G/, so it was /x/ -> /f/
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