Re: S(h)ibboleth

--- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> Which in Denmark is pronounced sjimpanse (sy-) and sebra (no z or

sh

> here either).

So English develops its 'ch' and 'sh' despite its Celtic substrate
and the Jutes in Kent, the Isle of Wight, Huntingdonshire and part of
Hampshire? Do you want to blame the French?

> And at the time Middle Welsh drops unstressed vowels so
> does Germanic (says Karl Horst Schmidt in an article I found) and
> Welsh and English and Danish lenites the stops together (Eng. law,

Da

> lov, Sw lag). So I'm confirmed in my suspicion of some Celtic-like
> substrate in West Jutland.

I'd sooner attribute late commonalities to English (conversion work
in Germany and Scandinavia) and then Anglo-Norman (in Wales) priests.

Richard.