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От : Ardith Hinton 1:153/716 16 окт 24 23:56:42
К : Alexander Koryagin 16 окт 24 10:16:01
Тема : Strange a bit
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Hi, Alexander! Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:
AK> It remains to me only to wonder about the English language
AK> evolution. How on earth you put a letter into the word and
AK> don`t pronounce this letter. ;)
AH> In some cases at least a word has been adopted from a
AH> Scandinavian or northern European language & we`ve trimmed
AH> a few inflections etc. :-))
AK> In other words, in "Milne" and other similar cases you can
AK> put a letter for no reason and which has no any sense.
Hmm. I think you were on the right track when you commented that
the "e" in this name may have been spoken aloud years ago.
Pronunciations in English often vary from one time & place to another
... and I don`t know where this name originated. But IMHO it`s
most likely the pronunciation changed & we never got around to changing
the spelling. I`m told that`s what happened with e.g. "gnash" and
"knife".... :-)
AK> Very probably this tricks came from French which is far
AK> ahead in this area.
In French the phonics work differently from what we`re used to...
but we often say that if your mouth is full of wine or marbles you
can cope. And I get the impression the upper classes in Russia
preferred French (which may have worked for them when they didn`t want the
servants to get the drift) until they became disenchanted with Napoleon, then
carefully reconstructed what`s now your native language. The net result from
my POV is that it`s a lot younger than my native language & doesn`t
include complications like "silent letters".... :-))
--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+
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