From: tgpedersen
Message: 48865
Date: 2007-06-06
>It's an exception. Exceptions need explanations.
> At 12:39:59 AM on Wednesday, June 6, 2007, Rick McCallister
> wrote:
>
> > --- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
>
> >> At 7:39:02 AM on Wednesday, May 30, 2007, tgpedersen
> >> wrote:
>
> >> > Germanic spirantizes stops before stops: haft-s
> >> > Sabellic does too: scriftas, screihtas
> >> > Old Irish does too: recht
> >> > Iranian does too: bust,
> >> > and it does more: fs^umans, fDroi
>
> >> > Latin doesn't: scriptum
> >> > Sanskrit doesn't: buddh-
>
> >> > Germanic is irregular here: it should be -fT-, not
> >> -ft-.
> >> > Why?
>
> >> What's irregular about it?
>
> > He noted that the -t doesn't spirantize. [...]
>
> I know. So what? That's not in itself an irregularity.