--- Sorin Olson <knuthad@...> wrote: > \

> > > Well,as far as I know, "R",is the descendant
> of
> > an Indo-european *s which was sondes in early
> > Germanic,whence the Z spelling.R is taken so that
> the
> > sound of the voiced sibilant undergoing the so
> > called"rhotacism"could be indicated(textbooks
> describe
> > it as something like the Czech r^).Besides I think
> > there are instances of z written for a ts-like
> > sound,found where a dental came to stand before a
> > sibillant.
>
> Hmmm, perhaps you could state that again in english?
>
> Sorin
>
> And now to english it.The point is that they write z

when they are stressing the historical background and
R when trying to give it a Scandinavian-languages
context. IL

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