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From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: Re: Lunatic orthography (was Re: Esperanto as a stepping stone?
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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 21:17:19 GMT
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In article <3fmhpi$239@mark.ucdavis.edu>,
Adam Greene <ez012445@jane.ucdavis.edu> wrote [quoting me]:
>: Sorry if I was unclear: "hissing" has <ss>, which is generally /s/, while
>: a single intervocalic <s> is generally /z/.  The same convention is seen in
>: French; cf. _frison_ vs. _frisson_.
>
>What about greasy? (not /z/ in CA) Esophagus, misanthropic, 
>racemic. Basic, asinine? As in: A switch to Basic English spelling 
>would be asinine?

That's why I said "generally".  I suspect that most of the exceptions are
relatively recent borrowings from Latin and Greek.
