Re: Danish enigma

> > Dutch
> > 'Ik ben hier gisteren geweest'
>
> No [g] > [j] in Dutch?

Ah, but you forget that all Dutch [g]'s are pronounced [x.], a voiced
velar fricative ([G] in Flemish).

>Neighboring Low German speakers would say
> <jestern> ['jæst&:n] and <jewesen> [je've:z&n]; already in

Rhineland

> (Aachen, Bonn, Cologne). Dat is jewiß. :))

I heard that it's 'Eene jut jebratene Jans is eene Jabe Jottes' in
Berlin?


Torsten