On Aug 4, 2022, at 4:55 PM, rajam via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

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@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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