Re: He, she and it against hem


Ar an dara lá de mí Lúnasa, scríobh Aidan Kehoe:

> [...] ’em is fine for spelling a reduction of “hem” ... and I wouldn’t be
> in a hurry to rule out the analysis of it as a reduction of “them,”
> today. My argument would be a lot stronger if I could rustle up an
> example of [æt] for “that”, but right now that’s not happening.

Oh yes it is, whee. Jespersen quoting Murray, Dial. of the Southern Counties
of Scotland, 1873, p.212;

aa cum fyrst--yt’s mey at cums fyrst
“I come first--it’s I that comes first”

--
Russian has no phoneme that corresponds directly to Germanic /h/. As a
result, for a not-insignificant number of people, the Second World War
involved the Soviet Union defeating Адольф Гитлер, “Adolf Gitler.”
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