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Re: German Spelling Reform (fwd)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 10, 1999, 15:39
FFlores wrote:

> Spanish has the silent <h> everywhere, often in places where Latin > (or the original language in any case) didn't have it.
That's because Latin /f/ became a secondary Spanish /h/ long after original Latin /h/ was lost. FABULARE > /hablar/ > /ablar/, for example. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! / Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge / Politzer