Date:  Thu, 4 Jan 1996 20:01:23 -0500

From:  Benjamin Barrett <Gogaku[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GNN.COM>

Subject: Re: Respelling



>Date:     Thu, 4 Jan 1996 14:03:37 -0700

>From: Rudy Troike <RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU>

>Sender:    American Dialect Society <ADS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>



>The spelling <Neandertal> has been around a long time in arch(a)eological

>writings. The <th> spelling in German represents a /t/ pronunciation, which

>Americans are woefully ignorant of, and thus pronounce with /Theta/ as in

>English. Dropping the <h> helps get rid of this inaccurate

> spelling-pronuncia-

>tion. Thanks for bringing up this example -- it will be useful in teaching.

[snip]



I was under the impression that it is lost to history as to whether the

Greeks of yore pronounced--or aspirated--the "h" in "theta" and "rho."



yoroshiku

Benjamin Barrett