Re: English [dZ]

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Tristan McLeay <conlang@T...> wrote:

>In the pre-Old English stage when /g/ most often had the realisation
>[G], the geminate /gg/ was pronounced [gg]. This also had a palatal
>form, [ddZ]. In Old English, [gg] and [ddZ] were spelt <cg>. You can
>see this in words like "ridge" or "bridge", which in OE were _hrycg_
>and _brycg_. I don't know what the German forms (or any other
>Germanic lang) would be, but they'd probably have a /g/. In MnE,
>because these are all word/syllable final (no geminates word initial
>in pre-Old English), these are generally spelt with <dge> or the
>like, not <j>.
In German, "bridge" is "Brücke," and "ridge" is "Rücken."

Charlie
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