Re: The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

In article <bvb0jj+m5h8@eGroups.com> tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
. . .

> English. What used to be, and still is written as <-a-> is now an
> ablaut series |eI, ä, &|. All occurrences of proper /a/ in English
> are loans (eg. <spa>).

What about the "a" in father? This was "fæder" in Old English, but is
definitely none of "eI, ä, &" in modern English.

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