At 18:50 2001-05-08 +0000, Raymond Brown wrote:
>At 2:04 pm -0400 7/5/01, John Cowan wrote:
>[snip]
>
> >In short:
> >
> > Sound change operates regularly to produce irregularities;
> > Analogy operates irregularly to produce regularities.
>
>Very nicely put!
>
>I like it.
So do I.
>Is it original Cowan? If so, can I quote it (with acknowledgment of course)?
It should be put into every historical linguistics textbook!
/BP 8^)>
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