Re: The oddness of Gaelic words in p-

At 1:33:15 PM on Tuesday, June 3, 2008, stlatos wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> At 4:53:48 AM on Tuesday, June 3, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

>> > Otherwise, with a general -TK- > -TT- rule, there would
>> > have been plenty of geminated Latin verbs. There isn't.

>> Since there is such a rule, your reasoning must be
>> incorrect.

> You were arguing for tk>kk not tk>tt; did you just misread
> this apparent typo?

Of course. (And I can't claim to be arguing for it; I'm
simply taking the word of an expert.)

Brian