Re: Subtitutes for English /T/ and /D/

An analogy: my Teach Yourself Old English shows many words that are
immediately recognizably from Dutch and/or German:

gecweme = pleasing (German: bequem)
binnan = in, within, less than (Dutch binnen, same meanings)
forl

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Ruud Harmsen
http://rudhar.com

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