Using Dictionaries (was Re: Greek question (night?))

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

Rick Mc Callister <rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu> wrote:

>HMMMM.
>Portuguese also has /-u/ but spells it <-o>

The spelling is historical.  Portuguese reduces unstressed /o/ to
/u/ (in Brazilian Port. this applies only to posttonic final
position -o > /u/, in Portugal to all unstressed /o/'s, except
absolute initial o-, some learned words, and cases where /o/
derives from oo < *ono, olC, ou).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl
Amsterdam