minimal pairs

[Stefan Georg]

>On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 10:10:19AM +0000, Eduard Selleslagh wrote:

>>  Note that 'Anthony', 'author' etc. are a class apart: the English spelling
>>  does not correspond to Latin spelling, which has 't': Antonius, auctor...I
>>  guess the th-spelling reflects an older English spelling rule for aspirated
>>  t (like in German, cf. Goethe, Luther,...).

>I believe that the "th" in Goethe and Luther (which I've also seen
>as Ludher) is an orthographic survival of the dental fricatives
>in German.

No, it isn't.
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