On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 09:05:26AM +1000, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
On 8/16/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 07:27:40PM +1000, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
This kind of thing interests me greatly. I just did some Google searches for Neapolitan OR napolitano with alphabet OR spelling OR orthography OR apostrophe OR quote. I couldn't find anything. So instead I'll ask here in which kinds of cases this occurs. Does it represent a certain sound or omitted letters?
Check the archive, last month; there was an *extensive* thread on this.
I took part in that thread and then, as now, as have not received a definitive answer and certainly no references at all to explain the orthography or the grammatical reasons for it.
Oh. Ok.
Shuttin' up now. :-)
Cheers, -- jra