CHAT: Narnian as she is spoke

On 08/24 22:46  bnathyuw wrote:

> evocative name ! almost worthy of roald dahl ( or
> maybe cs lewis's Spare Oom )
>
I was wondering about this recently, whether it could mean that Narnian
was a rhotic dialect.  Presumably Lucy, being an Englisher, would have
said something like /spe@#rum/, but Tumnus reinterprets it as /spe@r#um/
or /spe@r#?um/.  Unless I've incorrectly analysed Tumnus' interpretation
of the phrase.  It could be that he elides the /r/, but he does it on no
other occasion, nor does any other Narnian.

- andrew.
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Andrew Smith, Intheologus                         hobbit@griffler.co.nz
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