Re: re Voiced affricatives in English dialects [was: re [tied] Anim

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Gordon Selway <gordonselway@...>
wrote:

> On the "Saxon -v- Anglian" dichotomy, it's worth recalling that (a)
> the areas are close to Wales and Cornwall (if Devon is thrown in),
> the eponym of the royal house of Wessex had a Welsh name, the DNA
> research carried out for the BBC in connection with their "Blood of
> the Vikings" series last year showed a higher level of similarities
> in the DNA tested in the south-west of England to that tested in
> Wales than elsewhere in England, there was a chiropodist who

asserted

> that there are similarities in bone form between her local (ie

from

> families with long roots in the area) patients in Herefordshire and
> Worcestershire and those in Wales, but not between those patients
> from outside the counties and people in Wales.
>
> Not sure what to make of this. I''m not sure how far the voicing

of

> stops which is one of the features of the change form Brittonic to
> Welsh (eg Lat. 'medicus' (?or Br 'medicos') -> W 'meddyg') was

areal.

> And I'm certainly not suggesting that 'language is in the genes'!
>

If a general 'voicing of the stops' is what it is. I proposed that it
might an old Germanic dialect difference going back to Verner.

Helf a second after pushing 'delete' to my filtered-off mail I
discovered one was from you, I hope it was only a copy of your
posting ?

Torsten