Kmu

[Michael Newman]

Or just gnu in a language that has prenasal voice neutralization and prevocalic postconsonantal nasal neutralization. 
Michael Newman
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Queens College/CUNY
michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu



On Apr 1, 2012, at 4:37 PM, paul johnson wrote:

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> paul johnson
> t could be a wandering crossbreeding Gnu that got tangled up wth te
> wrong letter of the alphabet, perhaps out to destroy H,I, J as not
> worthy of fertlzaton
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> On 4/1/2012 9:28 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>> On Apr 1, 2012, at 2:30 AM, W Brewer wrote:
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>>> It?s a newly discovered Greek letter. The K is silent.
>>> 
>> Along similar lines, I was thinking that it was a voiceless gnu, but in light of Eric Nielsen's hypothesis, maybe it's an voiceless existentialist gnu.
>> 
>> LH
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