LL-L: "Etymology" LOWLANDS-L, 04.MAY.2001 (03) [E]

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From: Henry Pijffers <henry.pijffers at saxnot.com>
Subject: LL-L: "Etymology" LOWLANDS-L, 04.MAY.2001 (01) [E]

Stefan Israel schreev:
>
>As you say, it is very difficult to distinguish loans from Dutch
>from those from Low Saxon.  You might search for words that
>wouldclearly distinguish the two varieties, e.g. /S/ vs. /sk/,
>e.g. the _shrimp_ that you mentioned, vs. Dutch _school_.  That
>tends to distinguish the two varieties (although Low Saxon
>continued to pronounced <sch> as [sk] for a while; even that
>distinction's not absolute.
>
In my Twente dialect we still pronounce it as [sk]. English _school_
is almost the same as our _scho(o)l(e)_

groten,
Henry Pijffers

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