Re: Initial "s" (was: General RFI)

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

Jowan 'ap Jowan domyscreus:

> Padrig Bryn yscrifef:
> 
> > eo yscreus:
> > 
> > >       ys at incol sluch lor mmorus --> ys at ary sluch lor mmorus.
> > 
> > This, of course, _should_ read ys at incol nysluch lor mmorus and ys at
> > ary 'sluch lor mmorus.  I forgot that word initial s- requires a vowel to
> > preceed it.
> 
> The correction is sound, but the rule is too strong.  It's only
> initial "s" + consonant that's forbidden, as in "yscrifer".  There
> are plenty of words with initial "s" + vowel.

Aye, the s + cons. is what I meant; and what I was thinking, even though
it didn't _quite_ come out right!  

> 
> -- 
> 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.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
> 
Padraic.