From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 62703
Date: 2009-02-01
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "george knysh" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 6:36 AM
Subject: Re[2]: [tied] French phonetics
>
> At 10:25:20 PM on Saturday, January 31, 2009, george knysh
> wrote:
>
>> ****GK: Like Londres for London? Always wondered about
>> that one, or why the Spaniards picked it up.****
>
> I don't know, but it's old: <Lundres> is found in Old French
> as early as the 12th century.
>
> Brian
>
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I would bet on the dissimilation *lund-nes > lund-res
I cannot think of another case, right now,
but I remember other cases of n > r exist.
A.