--- tgpedersen <
tgpedersen@...> wrote:
etc etc. Note: There aren't any -b- forms in his
material from Poland
and Germany. They all have -p-. Which means the first
Germanic sound
shift, the Grimm shift, wherever it took place, it
wasn't here (are
you listening, George?)
****GK: Since I'm not much of a linguist, I don't
understand your point. If the Grimm shift means a
substitution of "p" for "b", how does the presence of
"p" and the absence of "b" argue against its having occurred?****
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