fortis and lenis
Joanne M. Despres
jdespres at MERRIAM-WEBSTER.COM
Mon Sep 11 13:45:18 UTC 2000
I checked the backing for our 1897 dating of these two terms and
found citation slips indicating that the words appear on page 73 of
a book entitled _German Orthography & Phonology_ by George Hempl.
These would, of course, be English-context uses.
Joanne M. Despres
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