Re: English notation
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 29, 2001, 19:53 |
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At 14:16 2001-06-29 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>BP Jonsson wrote:
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>>Þ Ðetisbyrg Adres
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>I decided to try to read this passage cold, without studying your
>tables, to find out how accessible the orthography was.
& hwat dú ý þink?
>I stumbled on the second word instantly, until I realized that you have
>absolutely no reason to know that "Gettysburg", like the surname "Getty"
>on which the name is based, is pronounced with initial /g/.
Aaagh! I should have looked it up! Thanks for the info anyway...
/BP 8^)>
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