Re: American dialect of Brithenig

[andrew <hobbit@mail.earthlight.co.nz>]

On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Sally Caves wrote:

> I meant just that! <G>  Stirling leaves in all the "dh"s and "bh"s and
> "x"s
> when reproducing their names and the words they say to each other, as
> though
> its been found somewhere in stone (and in the Roman alphabet!!!!).  
> 
Sounds like he didn't read too deeply into the subject.  I would expect
that they would adapt names to their Nantucket pronunciation:

"*Bhero-wlkhos!?  How do you pronounce that?  Ah, shoot!  Let's just call
you Bob!"

- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus 			hobbit@earthlight.co.nz

	Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;
	Light dies before thy uncreating word:
	Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
	And Universal Darkness buries All.
			- Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book IV.