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From: alanr@rd.bbc.co.uk (Alan Roberts)
Subject: Re: The @ sign: help
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Daniel von Brighoff (deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu) wrote:
: In article <D8EsyD.CpH@bbc.co.uk>, Alan Roberts <alanr@rd.bbc.co.uk> wrote:

: >Thank you, very interesting. I'd spotted collen, ogof and coch, but your
: >explanatation of letter drift makes a lot of sense.
: >
: >Is everybody happy now? :-)

: Hmph!  "Letter drift" is a pretty flippant way to refer to one of the
: most interesting and important morphophonological processes in Welsh.

: Da ap Gwilym

Didn't mean to offend, that's just what it looks like to me, a non-
linguist with a dim and shaky remembrance of some Welsh learned over
40 years ago.

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************* Alan Roberts **************
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