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Re: Digest 2 Apr

From:Aidan Grey <frterminus@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 3, 2001, 23:32
> Yoon Ha Lee wrote: > > That reminds me--how/why, insofar as the question > is answerable, did > > Latin v [w] go to v [v] in the Romance languages
/w/ is a bilabial fricative, of sorts, just bring the libs closer and closer together and you'll get a sound more and more /v/-like. Fairly simple, I think. Aidan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>VW (was: Digest 2 Apr)