| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 8, 2001, 17:51 |
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. Is it original Cowan? If so, can I quote it (with acknowledgment of course)? Ray. ========================================= A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language. [J.G. Hamann 1760] =========================================
| BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |