Re: k-like sounds in English and other European languages

On Oct 13, 1:51 am, Nathan Sanders <nsand...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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("Dote" does happen to be a word, but the word "dote" has nothing to
do with "anecdote".)

This is silliness. The morpheme boundaries are in the orginal greek
word and an-ec-dote is some kind of a latent morphemic breakdown in
English. In this case the latent boundaries may have become
unproductive in English, but in other cases they might not be.

Very fruitful area for research.


and "anegdote" in everyday speech
wouldn't be noticeable, IMO.

Your opinion has no bearing on reality, which is that native English
speakers would notice.

Call in some of your students, do the experiment and tell the group
the results. How on earth can you know without such an experiment?


Nathan

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