Re: Scots.

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 23:43, J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> wrote:
> According to the Grimm brother's Deutsches Wörterbuch, "Strom"
> is a dialectal form that made its way into the standard, while the expected
> form would be "Straum":
>
> http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Projects/WBB/woerterbuecher/dwb/cdrom/wbgui?lemid=GS50970
Fascinating.

And yet another thing that makes historical linguistics and sound
changes based on knowing New High German frustrating sometimes, since
not all the words come from the same area and have participated in the
same sound shifts! It's really a bit of a hodge-podge in some areas.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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