Re: Grammar question - is "hir" grammatically correct?

In article <1190738758.794376.323390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ben Goodman <goodben@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well yes. When I said High German, I included Old High German because
I was using the High German Consanant Shift as the defining
characteristic of High German. The canonical example of the High
German Consonant Shift is the t -> ss shift of water (English and
Dutch) to Wasser (German). The HGCS was after the split because
English, Dutch, Frisian, and Low German don't (or mostly don't) have
it.

North German dialects don't have it. Southern German dialects have a
further set of shifts. Modern Hochdeutsch is much closer to the middle
German dialects, which have one set of shifts, but not the southern
ones.

And you can't pin a set time to any sound shift--it's always gradual.

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