Here’s a standard English spelling and pronunciation change: a book — an apple.
Elliot > On Aug 4, 2022, at 4:55 PM, rajam via INDOLOGY <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 Elliot M. Stern 552 South 48th Street Philadelphia, PA 19143-2029 [email protected] 267-240-8418
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