Re: metathesis (was: écagne et al.)

At 06:32 AM 4/5/2000 +0100, Raymond Brown wrote:
>At 6:35 pm -0500 4/4/00, Eric Christopherson wrote:
>[....]
> >Well, I don't know, but it's not unheard of; Hebrew and Aramaic at least,
> >and IIRC Arabic too (so perhaps all Semitic langs) had a regular metathesis
> >when a coronal stop immediately preceded a sibilant, for example *[tS] >
> >[St]. Note also [sk] from [ks] in Middle Eastern variants of the name
> >Alexander, such as the city Iskerderun (the al- probably dropped off
> >because it was seen as the Arabic article).
>
>...and English dialect 'ask' ~ 'ax' and 'wasp' ~ 'waps' /wOps/  :)
Right.
Also note that Iskerderun was a typo; it should have been Iskenderun.