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Re: Bostonites. *ZAP*

From:Carlos Thompson <cthompso@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 16, 1999, 19:30
Nik Taylor wrote:

> Brian Betty wrote: > > It probably was in an older period, when the J was still pronounced /=
Z/.
> > I'm sure it was, hence the /tS/ in Modern English. But I was wondering > about the vowel, whether it was lonja or lunja.
Well, a phonemic borrowing from /'lonZa/ or /'lonSa/ into /'lVntS/. BTW, the only context I usually hear "lonja" is for ham, cheese or real estates. -- Carlos Eugenio Thompson Pinz=F3n ITEC-Telecom, Colombia cthompso@alpha.telecom-co.net http://alpha.telecom-co.net/~cthompso/ Di mi beh em je lok mi ju je kom lon vu am je