Re: Orthography supporting sound changes?

Peter T. Daniels:

>
> And spelling pronunciations have nothing whatsoever to do with sound
> change.
>

Let me see if I got that right.

If one single word changes its pronounciation (for whatever reason), that's
not sound change but a mere vocabulary issue.

The term "sound change" applies only to overall systematic changes of the
pronounciation of a phoneme in a given context.

Joachim
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