Progressing beyond borders-making subtags inclusive

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Fri Jan 4 21:29:43 CET 2008


Randy Presuhn scripsit:

> Could you give an example of such an overlap?  The divergence in
> pronunciation was already marked in the 1700s.

Indeed.  Did lootenants and leftenants face off at the Battle of
Yorktown (1781)?  We don't know for sure, but they could have.

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