Re: Webpage changes. (fwd)

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

Padrig Bryn yscrifef:

> > Rather an idle title (rhymes in my dialect of English),  [...]
> [The -i-, the -d- or the -le?  Or all three?]

All three.  /aiR,l taiR,l/, where /R/ is a voiced alveolar flap.

> Something rather extraordinary must have happened in order to convince
> such a nascent country to join up with a bigger one.

Fear of the Bloody Saxons, and before them the Bloodier Vikings.
The Chomro, even if over-sophisticated, were at least Romans.

-- 
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)