Re: PIE initial *a

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 2:27 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: PIE initial *a


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

> English <i> does not appear after <q> in native words. So what?

There are three answers to that:

(1) <q> does not occur in native English words - we have <qu>.
('Qantas' is Strine :).

(2) _Iraqi_. Only the Guardian spelt it <Iraqui>.

(3) http://www.qinetiq.com/ .

These answers are not consistent, but I don't think you can
consistently reject them all.

Richard.

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Patrick:

Do you consider Iraqi a native word?


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