Re: Scots.

Hi!

Philip Newton writes:
>...
>> 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.
When I did Þrjótrunn, the frustration was similar for Icelandic sound
changes.  Dunno whether it was less extreme (probably, I'd suppose),
since I never tried to closely analyse High German, but many, many
words in Icelandic where from different dialects at different stages
of language development, so any attempt to get my sound changer 100%
like Modern Icelandic just had to fail.

Languages are living things. :-)

**Henrik

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