[INDOLOGY] Sandhi examples in the english language

[rajam]

Examples coming to my mind instantly: 

1. Got you > gocchya 

2. Why don’t you > Why don’tcchya 

3. What is up ? > Whassup?

4. cup of tea > cuppatea 

If you can get a hold of a newspaper edition of Charlie Brown series, you can collect a number of similar examples.

Regards,
rajam 



> 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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