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Re: English syllable structure

From:Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>
Date:Friday, December 7, 2001, 3:47
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 anstouh@yahoo.com.au War doesn't prove who's right, just who's left. - BSD Games' Fortune