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Old 10-02-2007, 11:53 AM   #83 (permalink)
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Re: Languages

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Originally Posted by eneles View Post
Mummy? In Egypt?
Ship is "skepp" in Swedish, "schiff" in German and "skib" in Danish. I can't remember the Norwegian word, but it's probably something similar.
Good example of morphology from k to sch to the h that we use in English.
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