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Re: Dropping Q and C (was: Some isolating verb patterns)

From:caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 19, 2005, 13:13
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Philip Newton <philip.newton@g...>
wrote:

>Hmm? It's the usual spelling before front vowels, which includes >native words such as "ken" or "kick". Though it's true that I can't >think of that many words offhand that start in ke- or ki- as opposed >to, say, ca-.
A quick glance through the AHD shows me 30 English words that begin with ke- and 33 that begin with ki-. I tried to eliminate obviously foreign borrowings like "kiwi." I wasn't sure if I should include kerb/curb or not. :-)> Charlie http://wiki.frath.net/User:Caeruleancentaur

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