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- From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
- Newsgroups: sci.lang
- Subject: Chaire -> chaise
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.161144.22109@enea.se>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 16:11:44 GMT
- References: <1993Jan3.164904.6398@desire.wright.edu> <Jan.3.19.08.23.1993.201@pilot.njin.net> <1993Jan4.032130.12753@trl.oz.au>
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- Jacques Guy (jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU) writes:
- >Z to r is also strange; once again,
-
- As already been mentioned, this is exactly what happened in North-
- Germanic.
-
- >it's usually the other way around as far as I know, e.g. French
- >chaire --> chaise,
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- Chaire -> chaise is a two-of-its-kind, the other being "be'sicles"
- from "be'ryl". However, there was a general change in French in
- the 16th century where intervocalic -r- became -z-, so there was
- "mazi", "Pazi" etc. According to Erasme this was to blame high-
- society Parisian ladies, but the pronounciation was noted outside
- of Paris as well. Nevertheless the change was rejected, and the two
- words above were the only to be affected.
-
- Source: Henriette Walter: "Le francais dans tous les sens".
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- Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
- Jag gav en k{ck tjeck en check.
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