From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jul 19 20:09:24 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:16:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1Dv4xY-0004Sy-1R for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:09:24 -0700 Received: from ms-smtp-01.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.40] helo=ms-smtp-01-eri0.texas.rr.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Dv4xV-0004Sq-Kp for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:09:23 -0700 Received: from hypermetrics.com (cpe-66-68-164-156.austin.res.rr.com [66.68.164.156]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j6K39IH9021365 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:09:18 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <42DDC05E.1070001@hypermetrics.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:09:18 -0500 From: Hal Fulton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: coi rodo References: <42DACBF3.8020003@hypermetrics.com> <42DBFB07.8090409@yandex.ru> <42DD856B.4010506@hypermetrics.com> <20050720023241.GD2444@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <42DDBD99.2020702@hypermetrics.com> <20050720030236.GH2444@chain.digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20050720030236.GH2444@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 1598 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: hal9000@hypermetrics.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:57:29PM -0500, Hal Fulton wrote: > >>Robin Lee Powell wrote: >> >>>On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 05:57:47PM -0500, Hal Fulton wrote: >>> >>> >>>>My dialect of English doesn't have that x sound. >>> >>>No dialect of English has that sound. >>> >> >>I'm no linguist, but I thought Scots used it (as in "loch"). > > > Point. I'm no linguist either, but I thought that was an isolated > borrowing, like "Bach". Do Scots have any *other* words with that > sound? Good question. I haven't a clue. But my instincts tell me that if it were really an isolated word, it would have gone to the "lock" pronunciation long, long ago. Hal