Chopping off bits.

[Padraic Brown <pbrown@nova.umuc.edu>]

On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, John Cowan wrote:

> 
> The "chopping off bits" refers to what has already happened: the loss
> of all endings on nouns and adjectives.
> 

Right, but where do they _stop_ chopping off bits?  It's entirely
conceivable that the -g will eventually drop away.  [Kernu has aspirated
most if not all stops in final position, that's a stones throw away from
chopping them off.]

> -- 
> John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
> 	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
> 	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
> 		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (FW 16.5)
> 
Padraic.