Yes. Thanc u, (meinstrym Spaniard non-Celt) Jesus (Rodriguez Ramos) 4 unurthing an5unt Celtic cul<r - but not 4 yor concomitunt prezum5us & patrunizing...
Dhe 'Centum-Satem' oltrnutiv neim 4 'Indo-Urupian' languijiz nevr saundz ryt, eidhe, enywey, espe5ly wen we r spycing dhe most wydly-spocn ov dhem & dhe wrd...
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/french.htm ay wud aargyu dhat /d9/ 'de' and /d2/ 'deux' iz e minnimel per, ooldhow sûm pipel wud transkrayb 'de' az /d@/....
ov koors, dher woz reysist bihéyvyer iven in dhi OWLDEN DEYZ, bût it woz difrent. it woz moor ov e kûlcherel reysizm, oor e rilídjes reysizm. probbebli dhe...
sanskrit iz, az faar az ay now, jûst wûn indow-yurepíen langwij - not klowser tu indow-yurepíen itself. sanskrit iz wûn ov dhe SATEM langwijiz. ay think e...
Rifaumd & abrivi8id spelingz hav startid becumig a vizibl reality widh dhe advent ov dhe mobyl fon & 'text-ryting.' But dhis iz an intyrly pryvit riality, &...
Givn dhat dhe trm 'Indo-Uropian' xclwdz Bascs, etc., huz historicl & jiograficl orijinz r/cud b iqly Indo-Uropian, hau els cud we discryb wot iz nown az dhe ...
Nicki - I thinc u r being a colabore5unist apolojist by implying dhat reisizm iz a modrn fenominon. I olweiz felt it woz dher in most tymz & pleisiz, albeit...
not sow shur, rili... aar dhe rawndid sawndz /y 2 9/ friikwent in keltik langwijiz? koz dhey siim tu bi wot distíngwishiz french (and sûm ov dhi ûdher...
... dhe kweschn wud dhen bi wedher Beowulf (dhe powem) sûmhaw epówzd ius sanguinis. AY think dhat dher woz now ius sanguinis at dhis taym, i.e. yu kud bikûm...
Rowli: - ay fergót sûmthing. Shwa iz = <e> in WS foor jeermen . dhis iz (in fakt) haw mowst skollerz siim tu intéerprit shwa in jeermen, neymli az en...
Jst 2 sey dht I reizd dhe orijinul qestiun ubaut dhe Romnz 'being Celts' a) bcuz ov dhe aparuntly gretr similarity btn Romans & Celtic languejiz dhan sey, dhe ...
9. Latin Orthography of Languages other than Latin 9.1. Anglo-Saxon Many languages all over the world are spelled with Latin characters. Old English, too, came...
Nicky, In message 11 you said that the doubling of vowels was done before the Norman invasion. You did not give any examples. The example you did give was ch...
Valerie Yule sent in this articl by Warwick McFadyen that she found in the Melbourne 'Sunday Age' 28/7/2002, in which he redefines the acronym SMS [short...
The phoneme /dZ/ that was symbolized in OE either as <cg> or in some cases <gg> due to contact with Old French orthography was now spelled either as <i> or <g>...
I wud jst lyk 2 mec it clir dhat I du not 'blem Jrmnz 4 all aur problmz' & hav dhe gretst respect 4 sivilyzd Jrmnz, hu, I biliv, wud be dhe 1st 2 opoz dhe...
Purhaps whot we nyd iz not a multiplisity ov riformd speling sistmz but a theory 2 explein dhe cunsurvatizm ov Ingli/ speling (he sed, widh one alredy up hiz ...
I urliur discrybd Dr.Jonson az 'dhe Cunsurvativ Prym Ministr ov Ingli/ speling.' But luc at dhe historicl tyming ov hiz 'Dic/nery,' btwn dhe (barbaric) supre/n...
'The Feminin Monarchi; or, The Histori of Bees' Charles Butler (Oxford, 1634; printed by William Turner for the author). 'Written in phonetic spelling...
Nicky, What is the origin of the ie for /i:/ in Dutch and German and in some English words? chief, grief, shield, field,.... bieing? Steve Nicky wrote: ...
duch spelling iz - unlayk deynish, inglish and jermen spelling - kwayt kensistent. dhats way its e nays moddel. ov koors, in may ji- spel (G Spell) dher aar...
ay kud oolsow yuuz dhe duch OE azz /u:/ (foed), u foor /V/ (kuller) and uu for /U/. simmiler to oo = /U/ az in truuspel. but it duznt rili kenvins mi. seym...
I pict up a copy ov C.L.Ren [C.L.Wrenn](Rawlinsn & Bozwrth Profesr ov Anglo-Saxn in Oxfrd, sumtym Prezidnt ov dhe Filolojicl Sosiety)'z 'The English Language'...
I supoz it dipendz hu 'we' r. Profi/nt spykrz familiar widh 'standrd spocn Ingli/' prhaps dont - we sym 2 undrstand y< udhe widhaut an agryd 'sistm'(?). But ...
I hav rysntly suspendid modure/n ov posts @ Saunds2 (exept 4 nu membrz). I woz influenst not only by dhe standrd ov contibu/nz (& hints, not suportid, 2 d8, in...
