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Thread #81647   Message #1499374
Posted By: GUEST,Allen
03-Jun-05 - 02:09 PM
Thread Name: happy? - May 31
Subject: RE: happy? - May 31
"Well, yes you were implying they were not part of the language. When I suggested 'fjord' you said it wasn't an English word. Then you said my other examples were exceptions because they were loan words.

They're either part of the language or they are not, the opinion of the professional lexicographers is that they are."

Exception is a nuetral term. Look it up. Loan words are exceptions, they're artificially introduced into a language, don't grow out of it. Any linguists here disagree?
Besides, of your other examples, not one was pronounced the same way.