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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread X marks the spot #25467 03/30/2001 2:40 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 Scots English has a vowel sound represented as /x/ in words such as loch; so does Welsh in such a word as bach (meaning little), and German in such a word as bach (meaning stream!). Standard English does not use this phoneme – I have started to wonder if this is a legacy of the impact of Norman and French having reduced the more guttural Germanic sounds of OE. Can anyone enlighten me? Does modern French use the /x/ sound? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted X marks the spot maverick 03/30/2001 2:40 PM Re: X marks the spot maverick 04/03/2001 10:49 AM Re: X marks the spot garynamy 04/03/2001 10:53 AM Re: X marks the spot belMarduk 04/03/2001 4:49 PM Re: X marks the spot belMarduk 04/03/2001 4:58 PM Re: X marks the spot wwh 04/03/2001 7:07 PM Re: X marks the spot AnnaStrophic 04/03/2001 11:33 PM Re: X marks the spot wwh 04/04/2001 12:09 AM Re: X marks the spot inselpeter 04/04/2001 12:14 AM Aix marks the spot NicholasW 04/04/2001 7:46 AM Re: Aix marks the spot Jackie 04/04/2001 9:53 AM Re: Aix marks the spot maverick 04/04/2001 10:55 AM Re: Aix marks the spot Jackie 04/05/2001 2:39 AM Re: Aix marks the spot shanks 04/05/2001 9:27 AM Re: X marks the spot Jackie 04/03/2001 11:08 AM Re: X marks the spot NicholasW 04/04/2001 7:39 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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