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As Jo noted Ge: Get
This is an apparent exception but, by and large, you'll find that the exceptions here will be Germanic words and the Germanic languages didn't go through that softening of Cs and Gs before Es and Is. The change was a purely a physical thing and didn't care that one word in a pair like magus/magi* underwent the shift and the other didn't. It's a matter of what the mouth was doing in the shift from the consonant to the vowel. In cases where the shift, for whatever reason, didn't happen (a word was coined after the shift had happened, for example) there will normally be some spelling convention to retain the hard sound as necessary, e.g. Italian spaghetti*.
* The things Ænigma will come up with. It wants spaghetti to be Spahn and magus/magi to be Maharashtra
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted magus/magi tsuwm 02/20/01 03:35 PM Re: magus/magi jmh 02/20/01 03:41 PM Re: magus/magi maverick 02/20/01 05:24 PM Re: magus/magi tsuwm 02/20/01 05:26 PM Re: magus/magi AnnaStrophic 02/21/01 12:46 AM Re: magus/magi Faldage 02/21/01 07:06 PM Re: magus/magi Anonymous 02/21/01 07:14 PM Re: magus/magi wow 02/21/01 07:19 PM To quote from www.maharashtra.gov.in Faldage 02/21/01 07:31 PM Re: To quote from www.maharashtra.gov.in AnnaStrophic 02/21/01 08:25 PM Re: magus/magi Jackie 02/21/01 02:40 AM Re: magus/magi Bean 02/21/01 11:47 AM Re: magus/magi maverick 02/21/01 12:07 PM Re: magus/magi Bingley 02/22/01 04:04 AM Re: magus/magi Father Steve 02/22/01 07:47 AM Re: magus/magi maverick 02/22/01 01:36 PM Re: magus/magi Sparteye 02/22/01 02:31 PM Gifts of the Magi Father Steve 02/22/01 02:38 PM Lest we forget Faldage 02/22/01 03:02 PM Re: Lest we forget wow 02/23/01 01:12 AM
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