Re: [tied] Re: Six, -ts- > -ks-

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:31:27 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

>1) Portuguese has /-us^/ for the spelling <-os>.

Which Portuguese? Not Galician/Northern Portuguese or Brazilian Portuguese
(except Carioca). And how is a modern (post 17th c.) Portuguese
development relevant to medieval spelling?

>2) The usual "path of disappearance" for /s/ is > /s^/ > /h/ > zero.

I don't think so.

>3) Both <pouchin> and <cushion> involve /s/ after /u/.

No. All these words involve /s/ after /i/.

>I think it would be strange for French final /s/'s to disappear
>abruptly.

It didn't. It disappeared first before a voiced consonant (by way of s > z

> D > 0), then (11th. c) before voiceless consonants (by way of /h/),

finally (13th. c.) in final position, except in liaison, where it survives
until today (as /z/, of course, not as /z^/).

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