Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"

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From: Rick McCallister
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"


There's also non-standard English
iddnit /Iddn&t/ < isn't it, sometimes "innit" /Inn&t/
bidness /bIdn&s/ < business, sometimes "binness"
/bInn&s/
Then there's
granted > /graenn&t/ in some Great Lakes dialects and
elsewhere
(& = schwa)

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In the discussed examples of Miguel/Guus
we're talking about cases of C-n > CC
you have listing C-n > nn,
which are more logical.

A.
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