tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 15 10:28:03 1997
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Re: SopDaq
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: SopDaq
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 13:28:04 -0400 (EDT)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (message fromDaniel Noll on Sat, 12 Apr 1997 16:41:48 -0700 (PDT))
>Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 16:41:48 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Daniel Noll <[email protected]>
>
>At 02:18 12/04/97 -0700, you wrote:
Who did? Not me. On a list as big as this, it's very important you have
the attributions right.
>> What is likely is that the process is not (or no longer) productive.
>> No one would deny that _feet_ is formed from _foot_ via umlaut, but
>> that doesn't make *_beet_ a correct plural form of _boot_.
>
>True, but _boot_ and _foot_ don't have the same sound in
>the middle.
But "boot" and "tooth" do, and yet one is teeth and the other boots.
~mark