Re: non-phonetic english spelling

From: Rolleston (rolleston_at_onetel.net.uk)
Date: 12/25/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 05:08:23 +0000

John A Rea wrote:
>>>>>"il", "un", "con", "per", "in", "del", "sul", "nel", "ed", "non"...
>>>
>>>Let me add "nord" and "sud" to the list.
>>
> Notice that these never end an UTTERANCE in Italian and are thus
> never actually "final"

Why would that be important?

Btw, what you say is not true of "nord" and "sud".

R.

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