deixis

[Tom Zurinskas]

The most frequent encounter of tradsteeng "ei" is in tradstreeng "eir" in the word "their" or "theirs".  It also represents far and away the most frequent sound encountered in text for "ei", which is as in ~air.


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
see truespel.com phonetic spelling


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> Poster: Benjamin Zimmer
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> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
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>> At 12:14 PM +0200 8/17/09, Julia Achenbach wrote:
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>>>At least in German. I am not too
>>>sure whether or not the same goes for English.
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>> It does for "deixis", "eidolon", and the other few words I can
>> think of that have been imported into English.
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