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From: "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com>
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Subject: Re: Archaic English Spelling
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:27:49 +0200
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Uzytkownik "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@att.net> napisal w wiadomosci
news:3F3254C9.B41@att.net...
> anonymous wrote:
> >
> > news:3f31d674@news.netos.com...
> > > English includes a number of borrowed words whose spellings are
> > > unpronounceable, as a result of retention of foreign consonant
clusters.
> > > For example, we have a group borrowed from Greek which begin with "ps'
> > > psychology, psoriasis; "pt" pterodactyl, etc.. I assume that someone
> > > decided to preserve the ancient Greek spelling (psi), etc..
> > >
> > > However, I'm stumped as to why the Greek "f" sound - presumably a
single
> > > letter "phi" in Greek -- was introduced into English as "ph"
(phonetic,
> > > phrenology, etc..)
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> >
> > f is to p what th is to t and sh is to s and kh is to k and gh is to g
and
> > zh is to z.
> >
> > Do you have an issue with all these consonant+h bundles, or are you just
> > being prejudicial when it comes to 'ph'?
> >
> > Girl called Sophie stood you up or what?
>
> Hey Uncle Davey,
>
> Now that you've unfathomably started reappearing in sci.lang, why don't
> you come up with your promised proof of the inerrancy of the biblical
> text (I think it was) (or was it a metric for the complexity of
> language?) instead of typing b.s. like the above?
> --
> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net
Rome wasn't built in a day.
I'm having to learn Lithuanian, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit in oder to prove
my point.
Uncle Davey, and Linear B had ph for the phi sound, if I remember rightly.
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