Re: PIE Ud-

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com,

I'd written:

> > Just a minute, guys, you're going way too fast for us outsiders. I
> > for one have a question: are there types of German in which the

<s>

> > of _Urinstinkt_ differs from the one in _Urin stinkt_? Or are they
> > always the same?

Then St-George answered:

> They differ: the former [s], the latter [S]. But in northern
> German dialects (Low German, e.g. around Hamburg) the latter
> is also [s]. And in the Suebian/Alemanian dialect, s before
> t is usually pron. [S], e.g. du bischt, er/sie/es ischt;
> du muscht. Hence the allusion (accompanied by a Smilie).

Thanks a lot, that's what we were taught at school, but I was
beginning to worry ...


W.