[Ipg-smz] The English Word That Hasn’t Changed in Sound or Meaning in 8,000 Years

[Richard Santalesa]

I call BS on Mr. Guy.  How does HE know with 10% certainty that it hasn’t changed pronunciation in 8000 years?  Is there a cuneiform schwa tablet out there somewhere?

From: Ipg-smz [mailto:ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org] On Behalf Of Mac McCarthy
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Cool!

mac

On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 9:11 AM Gabe Goldberg <gabe at gabegold.com<mailto:gabe at gabegold.com>> wrote:
One of my favorite words is lox,” says Gregory Guy, a professor of
linguistics at New York University. There is hardly a more
quintessential New York food than a lox bagel—a century-old popular
appetizing store, Russ & Daughters, calls it “The Classic.” But Guy, who
has lived in the city for the past 17 years, is passionate about lox for
a different reason. “The pronunciation in the Proto-Indo-European was
probably ‘lox,’ and that’s exactly how it is pronounced in modern
English,” he says. “Then, it meant salmon, and now it specifically means
‘smoked salmon.’ It’s really cool that that word hasn’t changed its
pronunciation at all in 8,000 years and still refers to a particular fish.”

http://nautil.us/blog/the-english-word-that-hasnt-changed-in-sound-or-meaning-in-8000-years

Wish I had some now...

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