Re: Droppin' D's Revisited

Barry Garcia wrote:
> I've always wondered how Spanish for instance got to the conjugations of
> habere like it has, i can see it in some instances, but it escapes me in
> others (perhaps i'm not looking hard enough? :))
Just very frequent usage, the same phenomenon that has given /v/ from
/h&v/ in English, despite the fact that, at least in some dialects of
English :-), there was no /h/ deletion or /&/ deletion!  :-)