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Re: /w/ vs /B/

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...>
Date:Monday, May 28, 2007, 20:03
On 28.5.2007 caeruleancentaur wrote:
> When I was studying Spanish at the university, one of our profesoras > would, on occasion, treat us to some Spanglish. One of the ones I > remember was "windshield," pronounced /'gwintSil/.
That's exactly how Common Romance treted Germanic *w! :-) Provençal did the same in native words like TENUIT > _tengue_ :-9 /BP

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Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>