Re: English syllable structure
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 7, 2001, 3:47 |
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On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Roger Mills wrote:
> Then too you have to decide how inclusive to be: natively, /S/ only
> precedes /r/, but if you include germanisms and yiddishisms it occurs more
> widely, 'spiel, schlemiehl, schmuck etc'. /labial-w.../ occurs only in the
> loan 'bwana'; /Cj.../ only if followed by /uw/, except for 'piano' and
> 'chiaroscuro'etc. etc. But certain things are totally no-no, of course.
I'd say, because schm- is an active prefixish thing in English, it should
be counted (`loud, schmoud', for example). Borrowings depend on how
English they are; a commonly used word is more English than a rarely used
one.
Tristan
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