minimal pairs
Stefan Georg
Georg at home.ivm.de
Wed Dec 20 18:10:15 UTC 2000
>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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