Re: English notation
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 3, 2001, 5:30 |
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At 6:26 pm +0200 30/6/01, BP Jonsson wrote:
>At 15:24 2001-06-30 +0200, daniel andreasson wrote:
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>>Two questions: Why is _får_ "four" and _skor_ "score" written
>>differently? They're pronounced the same, aren't they?
>
>To differentiate it from the preposition _for_.
Indeed, the two are not by any means homophones in all dialects.
Pronunciations like [fow@(r)] = 'four' are not uncommon. Howver, I'm
fairly certain that _score_ always rhymes with _four_ in all dialects, even
tho it doesn't always rhyme with _for_. Therefore, while there is indeed
a good case for spelling _four_ differently from _for_, the case for _får_
"four" and _skor_ "score" is less well founded, methinks.
Ray.
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