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Re: OT-ish:Conlang Census

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 10, 2004, 19:19
At 12:42 8.2.2004, Andreas Johansson wrote:

>Thanks to the half-assed way we assimilate the spellings of loans, Swedish >probably deserves some sort of prize for atrocious ways of spelling [x]. Let's >see, we have 'sj', 'sk', 'skj', 'stj', 'ch', 'sch', 'sh', 'g', 'j'. That's >nine already, and I'm quite possibly forgetting one or three.
Actually there are 23, if you count _xj_ in _Växjö_! ch, che, g, ge, gi, ige, j, je, sc, sch, sh, shi, si, sj, sk, skj, ssi, ssj, stg, sti, stj, ti
>Then there's the word _östgöte_ "man/person from Östergötland" with
The same is mutatis mutandis true of _Väst(er)götland, västgöte_ etc. /BP 8^) -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Truth, Sir, is a cow which will give [skeptics] no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull." -- Sam. Johnson (no rel. ;)