Re: [tied] Re: "Will the 'real' linguist please stand up?"

From: Frank Verhoft
Message: 19254
Date: 2003-02-25

<<<It's not uncommon.  The Dutch for "nothing" is <niets> [nits] (accidentally very close to the Polish for "nothing", <nic> [n^its]), but is commonly pronounced as [nIks].<<<
 
In Dutch, "niets" and "niks" are two different words in Dutch, the former is "niet+s", the latter a loan from German.
 
Vriendelijke groetjes,
 
Frank