[lojban-beginners] Re: coi rodo

[Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com>]

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