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Re: Questions and Impressions of Basque

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 31, 2004, 17:00
Philip Newton scripsit:

> IIRC, Ukrainian has [g] only in onomatopoeia and some loanwords, and > uses (used?) a special letter (g-with-upturn) for this, which was > abolished (when it became part of the USSR?),
By Stalin, rather, as part of his russification of the USSR.
> though some are trying to reintroduce it.
I think that it is in fact reintroduced, at least in print. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan Promises become binding when there is a meeting of the minds and consideration is exchanged. So it was at King's Bench in common law England; so it was under the common law in the American colonies; so it was through more than two centuries of jurisprudence in this country; and so it is today. --Specht v. Netscape

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Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>Questions and Impressions of Basque & Ukrainian