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Re: CHAT: A flat minor (was: ATTN: Pablo Flores (VIRUS WARNING))

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 22, 2002, 21:36
Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> |v|=[f] is of course perfectly regular in German, tho' |v|=[v] is a not > uncommon irregularity.
My mother the native speaker and _Germanist_ told me that "v" was pronounced /v/ in non-native words such as "November" and "van Beethoven" (LvB was born in Bonn, but the family was from South Brabant). -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan http://www.reutershealth.com Unified Gaelic in Cyrillic script! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Celticonlang