From: tgpedersen
Message: 62138
Date: 2008-12-18
>I don't understand what you mean. Please explain.
> At 8:09:07 PM on Wednesday, December 17, 2008, tgpedersen
> wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> > <BMScott@> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> I wasn't thinking of lexical borrowing, but rather of
> >> contact-induced variation in pronunciation, possibly
> >> starting quite early.
>
> > It would come down to the same thing, namely a claim ON
> > /o:/ > ODa /wo/, but no ON /o:/ > OSw /wo/, [...]
>
> No. That would be something quite different.