[INDOLOGY] Sandhi examples in the english language

[Harry Spier]

Thank you all for these great replies. Howard Resnick gives an example of a
spelling change for internal sandhi.  Can someone give me an example of a
spelling change for word junction (external) sandhi in a non-Indian
language (if such a thing exists?).
Harry Spier


On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 4:01 PM Howard Resnick <hr at ivs.edu> wrote:

> English sandhi, n -> m before a labial consonant:
>
> Examples: in-justice but im-possible; in-scrutable, but im-mature.
>
> etc.
>
> Good luck,
> Howard
>
> > On Aug 4, 2022, at 12:51 PM, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> >
> > Dear list members,
> > I need to give a brief introductory talk to english speakers, not
> linguistic or sanskrit students, but english speakers who chant sanskrit
> mantras and shlokas.
> > I thought I'd briefly talk about and give examples of:
> > 1) How sanskrit is very independent of word order.
> > 2) How sanskrit uses case endings
> > 3) How sandhi is widespread in sanskrit andi is also part of the
> spelling in sanskrit .
> >
> > I'd like to give examples of sandhi in english to to make the concept of
> sandhi more clear.  The examples I know of are:
> > 1) final "s"
> > "books" pronounced as "books" but "bags" pronounced as "bagz".
> > 2) final "d"
> > "glazed" pronounced as "glaizd" but "placed" pronounced as "plaist"
> >
> > It would be helpful if someone could give me other examples of sandhi in
> english. Not final "s" or final "d"
> >
> > Also is it true that most (all?) languages have sandhi ?
> >
> > Is sandhi expressed in the spelling (and not just the pronounciation) of
> any non-Indian languages?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Harry Spier
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Harry Spier
> >
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