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v => ph Transformation Rule

02/18/2009 - 17:54

Steven can be spelled Stephen. The ph is voiced in the latter case.

Why can't we do this with any word that has a v internally?

David -> Daphid
Avarice -> Apharice
Evening -> Ephening
Love -> Lophe
Liver -> Lipher
Loaves -> Loaphes
Woven -> Wophen

etc.

Wed, 02/18/2009 - 19:03 — Anonymous (not verified)

Steven = "eeven"

Stephen = "eeven", "effen", "eeffen"

Take off a syllable, you get:

Steven -> Steve

Stephen -> Steph, Steve [!]

I think the logical disconnect is a case of square/rectangle. The other cases don't apply because they aren't the right "shape".

Read enough Olde Englishe and proto-German, there may be a pattern, but it's lost to modernity everywhere else but names.

Thu, 02/19/2009 - 13:00 — firebus

You think that everything is a case of square-rectangle.

It was cool in elementary school, but you've gotta branch out.

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