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Author: Sean Crist
Email: kurisuto at panix dot com
Date: 2006-03-31 07:26:50
Subject: Re: Error report: Torp, page b0276, entry 11
This is a margin comment on: Torp, page b0276, entry 11
> The word bevvu Gerste is spelled with double v.
> Shouldn't that be a single w instead?
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> /Benct
This is not necessarily an error. Torp follows an archaic convention of spelling "w" with "v" in various languages, such as Gothic and reconstructed Proto-Germanic. There are some words in Proto-Germanic with geminate "w".
--Sean
| Messages in this thread | Name | College/University | Date |
 Error report: Torp, page b0276, entry 11 |
Benct Philip Jonsson |
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2006-03-31 07:19:16 |
| Re: Error report: Torp, page b0276, entry 11 |
Sean Crist |
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2006-03-31 07:26:50 |