[INDOLOGY] Sandhi examples in the english language

[Harry Spier]

Thank you to everyone who sent me these great  examples.
Harry Spier

On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 4:13 PM Mark McLaughlin via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Harry ~ I love reading all these responses. When explaining sandhi to my
> undergrads in my intro to Hinduism course, I tell them that Sanskrit
> privileges the spoken over the written. When they ask me what that means, I
> say to them, "I'm gonna tell ya," and then I write "I'm gonna tell ya" on
> the board.
>
> All best,
> Mark
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 1:59 AM Lucy May Constantini via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Welsh definitely has sandhi, and it reflects in the spelling. My Welsh is
>> rudimentary, but an example would be "Cymru am byth" (the Welsh motto
>> "Wales forever") and "Croeso i Gymru" (on the road signs as one leaves
>> England and enters Wales, meaning "Welcome to Wales"). The spelling
>> Cymru/Gymru (Wales) is dependent on the sandhi.
>>
>> All best wishes,
>>
>> Lucy May Constantini
>> PhD Candidate in Religious Studies
>> School of Social Sciences and Global Studies
>> Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
>> The Open University
>>
>> AHRC Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP Funded
>>
>> OU People: Lucy May Constantini <https://www.open.ac.uk/people/lmc662>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 at 01:54, Elliot Stern via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Harry,
>>>
>>> Welsh and other Celtic languages may have sandhi or similar phenomena.
>>> Howard’s example suggest you may want to consider Latin.
>>>
>>> I can also think of certain English colloquialisms like Whazzup for
>>> What’s up.
>>>
>>> Elliot
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> > On Aug 4, 2022, at 4:02 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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