Re: Re[2]: [tied] Dacian - /H/ -> seems not possible

On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 15:29:51 -0500, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

>At 3:07:23 PM on Sunday, December 7, 2003, Miguel Carrasquer
>wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 17:09:24 +0000, Richard Wordingham
>> <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
>
>>>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer
>>><mcv@...> wrote:
>
>>>> Latin had no /h/ (it lost it very early on). Therefore,
>>>> no native Romanian words have /h/, and no substrate
>>>> /h/'s would have survived among a Romanized population.
>
>>>Does that follow? Where do Scots <-lz-> and <-nz->
>>>(originally palatalised) come from?
>
>> Never heard of them. Can you give some examples?
>
>I'm guessing that Richard is thinking of things like the
>surname <Menzies>, now /'miN@.../ or the like,

The Scots I'm most familiar with is as she's spoken in one of my all-time
favourite movies ("Gregory's Girl", Bill Forsyth, 1981), and Mister Menzies
is something like /mInzis/ there.


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