Date:  Fri, 10 Nov 1995 08:26:34 -0500

From:  "Dennis R. Preston" <preston[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PILOT.MSU.EDU>

Subject: Re: Knarly?



Since I am one of your plain old sociolinguists, I ain't into readin' and

writin' much. Privileges of occurrence among sounds (in terms of linear

order) are known as 'phonotactics.' Does Tony's account amount to a

'graphotactic' explanation? Is there such a convention among those of you

who study writing systems? I remember studies of long ago which looked at

'grapheme-phoneme correspondences'; perhaps they contained such

terminology.

Dennis Preston

<preston[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]pilot.msu.edu>





>Seth:

>    I think Shaw's example was "ghoti" with gh from rough. What GBS did

>not understand was that "gh" does not occur in initial position "o" does occur

>in medial position as in "women" GBS's example, and "ti" of nation does not

>occur in final position.

>

>    \tony