... Unfortunately, (a) the final que has a long vowel; (b) we're stuck with the adjective aequus. It seems unavoidable that the root is *aequ- Peter...
... Thanks. Perhaps I'll try again -- I'm never as eloquent as I imagine. I had several ideas, confusing them then but even more in retrospect. The first was...
... See http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/sap/files/42/05Gasiorowski.pdf where it is argued that different realisation of /r/ (including retroflex ~ bunched and uvular ~...
... Retroflex r in Wessex, Brittany, Holland. And since r in Norwegian and Swedish retroflexes the following /d/, /l/, /n/ and /s/, one might assume that r was...
... And in oft-used combinations with past participles. According to Google, "oft-quoted" and "oft-repeated" are a little more frequent than "often quoted" and...
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... And as a prefix: the oft-maligned Mr. Schwartz, e.g. andrew...
... Incidentally Torsten I just spoke on the phone with my sister, who has been to Cornwall and Devon in England where she heard the people there speaking with...
... SW England is where the American-type /r/ most likely comes from, and it's also the largest surviving stronghold of rhoticity in England. The West Country...
... That is wonderful news. Now you just have to prove that Baltimore was founded by king Alfred. But if she had still been there, you could have told her to...
... If the Welsh borderlands had rhoticity at that time, this would fit in very well with the initial British settlement of the Mid-Atlantic, which was...
... To me, the SW English /r/ sounds more like a Canadian /r/ than an American /r/ --i.e. more prolonged and little farther back in the mouth ... Actually, it...
... existence. ... The thing I found most interesting in this paper was the map of rhoticity in Britain in 1889: even at this relatively late date, Ellis's...
... Look at early colonial topos named for places in the UK, this is a clue to where the settlers were from. If you look around the Philadephia area, you get...
... As late as ca. 1700, *all* of English was rhotic (though variable non-rhoticity was probably beginning to creep in, judging from sporadic misspellings like...
... existence. ... I must apologize. The author repeatedly mentions throughout that there are remnants of rhotic speech in his study of 2003-2006. I don't...
... This is what happened in Europe: with the arrival of the railway, towns of any importance (old towns with a railway, new towns at railway junctions) had...
http://www.archaeology.org/0811/abstracts/turkey.html " Schmidt and his team have found the bones of wild animals, including gazelles, red deer, boars, goats,...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18521123?dopt=Abstract ... If somebody can access this article please tell me "Reassessing domestication events in the Near...
... Not too different but with one exception: the US is huge compared to Europe and school marms normally would not have come from far away. They simply would...
... But you forget one thing: the extreme mobility, albeit mostly one way and once only, of American society at the time. If she struck lucky, that school marm...
... . . . ... The NY dialect is so different from the Midwest dialect, that most Americans pretty much lump it in with the Boston accent, and other NE r-less...
... to ... contain ... The 'original' .pdf (not the 'reassessed' one) is here.... http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/mcclean/plsc731/homework/papers/hue ...
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