Re: R: Re: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)

Oskar wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 14:35:33 -0400, Robert Hailman <robert@...>
> wrote:
>
> >David Peterson wrote:
> >>
> >> In a message dated 4/8/01 2:12:01 AM, and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
> >>
> >> << If aesthetics were to dictate, English is in dire need of
> >> a spelling reform, IMNSHO.
> >>  >>
> >>
> >> I will defend those "gh"'s to the death!
> >
> >Yeah! If aesthetics were to dicate, I'd keep English exactly as it is.
> >Maybe throw in a few random umlauts, and a handful more "gh"s.
>
> Igh suggest the folloghing examples, then: dagh (day), wegh (way), sagh
> (say), bogh (bow), lagh (law) ;) ;)
Hey, just a question: is the word 'law' from Latin 'lex' via French 'loi'
(sp?), or is there a Germanic root I'm missing?

Luca

> (Just add some more rules on how vowel + gh sequences get pronounced...)
>
> Óskar

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