Re: Getting Around tv
Saul Epstein 
Sat, 8 Nov 1997 09:09:19 -0600

From: Whittaker, Pat <pwhittak*sol,uah,ualberta,ca>
Date: Thursday, November 6, 1997 8:07 AM
 
> I have seen the word T'Vet (a religious figure that wasn't a big
fan of 
> Surak).  I can only see the tv consonants together with an
apostrophe 
> between them.  At least, with the apostrophe, it's pronouncable.
> Selek

Exactly. And in some ways that sums up my uneasiness with the <'>.
Except when it occurs between vowels, its role seems to be to render
pronouncable -- in the eyes of whoever made up the word -- what would
otherwise be unpronouncable.

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