Re: imperatives

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Haukur Þorgeirsson <haukurth@...>
wrote:

>
> The imperative is still a bit up in the air. In a survey I did on a

class

> of gymnasium students I got the following results:
>
> bitt - 8 students
> bind - 5 students
> bint - 4 students
> bindt - 2 students
>
> The last one surprised me since it doesn't confirm with normal Icelandic
> orthography, we don't get 'dt' clusters.

That's curious. Did they pronounce 'bindt' like 'bint' [pIn_0t,
pInt_h] or like 'bind' [pInt]?