Re: Basque onddo

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@...> wrote:

>
> I'm perfectly well aware of the use of <n> as a nasal
> diacritic in Portuguese orthography. The terminology
> 'consonantal n' is Williams's, not mine. He appears to
> take the view that a consonantal /n/ *did* develop in
> certain settings and subsequently dropped, leaving a
> nasalized vowel.
>
> > Actually <bento> *has* an etymological /n/ from the former
> > <beneito>.
>
> I never said otherwise.
>

And I never said you did but your beloved Williams.

> Do try to read a little better.
>

Quoting somebody as you did *implicitly* means you agree with him.