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Am 09/07 13:17 Dan Jones yscrifef: > We get to the Crunch: > How do other (con-)romancelangs deal with this cluster? Spanish does excrescence, French assimilates, Italian does nothing (laziness...), so what does everyone else do? > In Brithenig the [m] is treated as intervocalic and softened to /v/. In the standard language this becomes /w/ and is treated as a business end of a diphthong. If the vowel before the [m] is a back vowel (u, o) it accents it as long with a circumflex and the -w disappears completely. - andrew. -- Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@hidden.email alias Mungo Foxburr of Loamsdown http://hobbit.griffler.co.nz/homepage.html Preacher on the corner, calling it a crime, Says, 'The end don't justify the means anytime'. I stood up on my van. I yelled, 'Excuse me, sir. Ain't nothing wrong with this country That a few plastic explosives won't cure.' - Steve Taylor, I Blew Up The Clinic Real Good