Re: Bostonites. *ZAP*
| From: | Carlos Thompson <cthompso@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 16, 1999, 19:30 |
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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.
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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