Re: Old English and Old Norse

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> > It's possible, but I wonder why the Dutch would go from an easier
> > phoneme to a more difficult one (maybe it's not difficult for the
> > Dutch, yes).
>
> I imagine Dutch extended the range of the /G/ at the time when the
> English with whom they were at war, abolished theirs. Shibboleth effect.
>
>
> Torsten
>

I don't want to argue with you, but to me your theory makes more sense
on paper than over wide distances in countries with more than a
million people.

Andrew