[Ansteorra] Pronunciation...

[iainmacc at juno.com]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:02:28 -0500 "Maleah" <maleah at mmcable.com> writes:
> > I have
> read other accounts of the congenital defect of the cleft palate
> being a
> problem in the Hapsburg dynasty just as hemophilia was a problem in
> the
> family of  Tsarina Alexandra, last Tsarina of Russia.
>

        I have also heard this one (read this one) from a number of
sources, so I'm willing to conditionally accept it as true. Whether or
not it is the source of the "th" pronunciation I couldn't say, but I
wouldn't be at all surprised.


              Iain MacCrimmon