From pycyn@aol.com Thu Aug 16 17:48:09 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 17 Aug 2001 00:48:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 21897 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2001 00:48:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 17 Aug 2001 00:48:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d06.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.38) by mta3 with SMTP; 17 Aug 2001 00:48:08 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.3.) id r.d5.adf4075 (3980) for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 20:48:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 20:48:02 EDT Subject: junta To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_d5.adf4075.28adc3c2_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10531 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_d5.adf4075.28adc3c2_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just a note to remind all that some of the oddities of English pronunciation arise from the fact that it has been an English word since at least the 17th century and probably came in with the zh pronunciation of that era, reenforced by spelling of course. The hunta pronunciation is fairly modern -- maybe in the US from the Mexican War, but probably later (Lincoln wrote "junto" but I don't know how he pronounced it). --part1_d5.adf4075.28adc3c2_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just a note to remind all that some of the oddities of English pronunciation
arise from the fact that it has been an English word since at least the 17th
century and probably came in with the zh pronunciation of that era,
reenforced by spelling of course.  The hunta pronunciation is fairly modern
-- maybe in the US from the Mexican War, but probably later (Lincoln wrote
"junto" but I don't know how he pronounced it). --part1_d5.adf4075.28adc3c2_boundary--