Re: 'out-' affix in conlangs?
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 14:37 |
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> Because in English many French loanwords are pronounced
> with initial stress. It doesn't surprise me WRT medieval
> loans, but it happens even with recent loans like
> "ménage", especially in British English, in fact.
If you say so, but that's not been my experience. IME, "ménage" is
always /m@'nA(d)Z/, "croissant" is /cra'sant/ ~ /cwa'sA~?/ , etc.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>