Re: German Letter in the English Language!?
- From: "John Briggs" <john.briggs4@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 16:25:32 GMT
Giles Todd wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 19:21:20 GMT, "John Briggs"
> <john.briggs4@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Einde O'Callaghan wrote:
>>>
>>> It might help if you gathered information about ligatures.
>>> Incidentally the German umlauted letters originated from such
>>> ligatures too.
>>
>> I'm not so sure about that - the Dutch "ij" is supposed to represent
>> y-umlaut (rather than vice versa).
>
> Is it ballocks. The letter 'y' in standard Dutch is called 'griekse
> ypsilon' (nice example of recursion there) and is used only in
> borrowed words, so you would need to come up with an explanation for
> umlauting a vowel that doesn't exist in the language for that to work.
> So far as I can tell, 'y' is only used with its consonantal value in
> Dutch (with the caveats regarding archaic spelling stated below).
OK - in that case, explain "ij".
--
John Briggs
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