From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V2 #124 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Saturday, June 3 2000 Volume 02 : Number 124 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: o /Ghandi/Gandhi [GHighPine@aol.com] Re: b/sappho ["Hilary L. Hertzoff" ] Re: o /Ghandi/Gandhi [Todd Huff ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:42:39 EDT From: GHighPine@aol.com Subject: Re: o /Ghandi/Gandhi In a message dated 6/1/00 7:18:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time, thuff_007@yahoo.com writes: << As far as _why_ I expect it to be Ghandi, I suspect it's because "gh" is common in American English and "dh" is not. >> But words =starting= in gh? How many words in English do that? Gayle ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 12:16:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "Hilary L. Hertzoff" Subject: Re: b/sappho On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, David S. Bratman wrote: > On Wed, 31 May 2000 GHighPine@aol.com wrote: > > > Joss, of course, is cognate to Zeus...... > > Is it? What kind of name is Joss, anyway? Josh I know, but Joss? > If he were female, it could be a nickname for Jocelyn (in whatever setting) or Jessica (don't actually know one, but I've seen it in at least one book). Hilary Hilary L. Hertzoff From here to there, Mamaroneck Public Library a bunny goes where a bunny must. Mamaroneck, NY hhertzof@wlsmail.wls.lib.ny.us Little Bunny on the Move hhertzof@panix.com by Peter McCarty ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 19:01:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Huff Subject: Re: o /Ghandi/Gandhi - --- GHighPine@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 6/1/00 7:18:56 PM Pacific > Daylight Time, > thuff_007@yahoo.com writes: > > << > As far as _why_ I expect it to be Ghandi, I suspect > it's because "gh" is common in American English and > "dh" is not. >> > > But words =starting= in gh? How many words in > English do that? > > Gayle Offhand, all I kind think of are variants on ghost and ghastly, and ghillie (which is pretty darn rare). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V2 #124 *****************************