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| Aug 9, 2018 at 10:06 | comment | added | Adam Bittlingmayer | An example that comes to mind are the Spanish words like Jesús, Dios and espíritu which because of their ritual use avoided some regular shifts in pronunciation that the rest of the language underwent. But ritualising the meaning can backfire, see en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Quebec_sacres. | |
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| Apr 16, 2016 at 15:52 | comment | added | Kenny Lau |
For example, -r in English words tend to make the vowels before them not change. Compare bear vs. bead, floor vs flood.
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| May 7, 2014 at 19:10 | comment | added | Marc Cenedella | That's really a fascinating question. I wonder for what purposes would such sound-change resistant words be most suitable? It would have to be something with a time period of centuries. | |
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| May 7, 2014 at 9:08 | answer | added | Alenanno | timeline score: 1 | |
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| May 6, 2014 at 19:57 | history | asked | Wilfred Hughes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |