Europrogocontestovision
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
Brother, sister
The imbalance in spelling and pronunciation is irritating: brother, sister. Preferable would be either,
brother
,
sisther
; or
broter
,
sister
. The development of the words (compare:
frater
,
soror
) seems caught between convergence and divergence.
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