Examples coming to my mind instantly: 1. Got you > gocchya
2. Why don’t you > Why don’tcchya 3. What is up ? > Whassup? 4. cup of tea > cuppatea If you can get a hold of a newspaper edition of Charlie Brown series, you can collect a number of similar examples. Regards, rajam > On Aug 4, 2022, at 12:51 PM, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear list members, > I need to give a brief introductory talk to english speakers, not linguistic > or sanskrit students, but english speakers who chant sanskrit mantras and > shlokas. > I thought I'd briefly talk about and give examples of: > 1) How sanskrit is very independent of word order. > 2) How sanskrit uses case endings > 3) How sandhi is widespread in sanskrit andi is also part of the spelling in > sanskrit . > > I'd like to give examples of sandhi in english to to make the concept of > sandhi more clear. The examples I know of are: > 1) final "s" > "books" pronounced as "books" but "bags" pronounced as "bagz". > 2) final "d" > "glazed" pronounced as "glaizd" but "placed" pronounced as "plaist" > > It would be helpful if someone could give me other examples of sandhi in > english. Not final "s" or final "d" > > Also is it true that most (all?) languages have sandhi ? > > Is sandhi expressed in the spelling (and not just the pronounciation) of any > non-Indian languages? > > Thanks, > Harry Spier > > Thanks, > Harry Spier > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected] https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
