Re: -ham

>that's <ich komme gleich> and <so ein Schwein>?

That's right.

>that something like [I'xa:nyt] could be both 'I can't' and
>'I haven't'!

Hehe, but most of the German-speaking regions are
covered by <nit, net> (I'd rather say that <nicht>
and <nich> are used by... minorities :-)) Then [ha:m]
for <haben> is also a quasi pan-German occurrence; so,
['ha:nyt] can be deduced as being some kind of <ham>+
<nit> => <hannit>.

>Damn' southerners. <g>)

Mia san mia. :-)

>Brian

George