Timeline for Examples of lenition and fortition usage
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
8 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 2016 at 11:18 | comment | added | Kit Z. Fox♦ | @Amy you mentioned you were going to change your accept checkmark. | |
| Jul 15, 2016 at 11:17 | comment | added | user182372 | @KitZ.Fox What do you mean by clean up the comments? | |
| Jul 14, 2016 at 17:37 | comment | added | Kit Z. Fox♦ | I'm nudging you so I can clean up the comments on this question. | |
| Jun 26, 2016 at 0:20 | comment | added | Mitch | Actually the herb/erb pair is one of lenition, just be a more tangle path. IN an extremely oversimplified, at some point in the past the 'h' was pronounced, and then later on it was weakened so much that it was lost all together, in the process of lenition. | |
| Jun 25, 2016 at 20:10 | comment | added | user182372 | @Mitch What would be a more appropriate example? | |
| Jun 25, 2016 at 20:04 | comment | added | Mitch | This also suffers from being about phonological phenomena that are not called fortition/lenition. herb(br)/herb(am) is a spelling pronunciation by the Brits (both were borrowed from the French who don't pronounce the 'aitch'. Fight/fit have identical 'unreleased' t's, it/IT are not cognately related. | |
| Jun 25, 2016 at 11:30 | comment | added | user182372 | I'll leave this up for a day or two and if no-one has any objections I'll accept this one as the more correct answer, as Mitch said. | |
| Jun 25, 2016 at 10:00 | history | answered | user182372 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |