Re: [conculture] Re: The things one finds
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 27, 1999, 1:56 |
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Tom Wier wrote:
> What? That depends on whether it's a regressive or progressive
> assimilation.
What I meant was that his "except when /k/ is next to /g/" is an
unlikely restriction. _makgaroon_ would be more likely to become
_maggaroon_ then that _kamay_ would become _gamay_.
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speke no Frenshe ... And then at last a nother sayd that he woulde haue
hadde eyren: then the goode wyf sayd that she vnderstood hym wel." --
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