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Gnomon - time to move on Started conversation May 5, 2007
Entry: The Story of Yogh - A14170970
Author: Gnomon - [ 4 stars ] - U151503
Short and sweet. Does it make sense?
A14170970 - The Story of Yogh
TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted May 5, 2007
Grand.
You could do the Story of Thorn as a companion piece, eh?
TRiG.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted May 5, 2007
Thorn is already in the Guide. A2922077
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TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted May 5, 2007
Okay. Try another.
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TRiG.
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Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman Posted May 6, 2007
But not the whole story: yogh is still used in the International Phonetic Alphabet, but here it represents a 'zh' sound (as in the Russian 'Zhifago').
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted May 9, 2007
The Russian zh letter is really an independent letter, although it looks the same. It is a Ze.
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Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman Posted May 9, 2007
Yes, but I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the symbol referred to as a 'yog' in the IPA which looks just the same as the yogh.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted May 9, 2007
Ah, so the IPA uses the Russian letter to represent the Russian sound, but calls it yog?
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Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman Posted May 9, 2007
No, the IPA uses a yogh to represent yog.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted May 10, 2007
According to wikipedia, the IPA uses the letter ezh to represent the zh sound, and it is frequently confused with yogh. Ezh has an angular top, while yogh has a rounded top.
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Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman Posted May 10, 2007
Well, I've heard it referred to as a yog in the past. I'll let you make up your mind.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted May 11, 2007
I'm happy not to include the IPA letter, as there seems to be confusion there. So I consider this to be finished.
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Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman Posted May 11, 2007
Sounds like a sensible decision to me.
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Recumbentman Posted May 16, 2007
Excellent reading!
Strange thing about the Normans -- when they came to Ireland they were happy to learn Irish with all its special gutturals. Perhaps they found the English more of a pushover?
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted May 16, 2007
Interesting point. I hadn't thought of that before. Ireland never spoke Norman-Irish, did it? Whereas Middle English was a combination of Anglo-Saxon and French.
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Recumbentman Posted May 17, 2007
Yogh-ho-ho 
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Peer Review: A14170970 - The Story of Yogh
- 1: Gnomon - time to move on (May 5, 2007)
- 2: TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office (May 5, 2007)
- 3: Gnomon - time to move on (May 5, 2007)
- 4: TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office (May 5, 2007)
- 5: Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman (May 6, 2007)
- 6: McKay The Disorganised (May 6, 2007)
- 7: Gnomon - time to move on (May 9, 2007)
- 8: Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman (May 9, 2007)
- 9: Gnomon - time to move on (May 9, 2007)
- 10: Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman (May 9, 2007)
- 11: Gnomon - time to move on (May 10, 2007)
- 12: Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman (May 10, 2007)
- 13: Gnomon - time to move on (May 11, 2007)
- 14: Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman (May 11, 2007)
- 15: Recumbentman (May 16, 2007)
- 16: Gnomon - time to move on (May 16, 2007)
- 17: h2g2 auto-messages (May 17, 2007)
- 18: Recumbentman (May 17, 2007)
- 19: Gnomon - time to move on (May 17, 2007)
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