Thursday, April 12, 2012

shibboleth of schedule

From wiki:
"The Dutch used the name of the port townScheveningen as a shibboleth to tell Germans from the Dutch ("Sch" in Dutch is analyzed as the letter "s" and the digraph "ch", producing the consonant cluster sx, while in German it is analyzed as the trigraph "sch," pronounced[ʃ]).[8][9]"

cf: schedule

sch: /sk/ or /ʃ/ (sh)

Many Germanic words in English with sch are pronounced as /ʃ/
schadenfreude
schneider
schmidt
schilling
schmuck
schmooze


/sk/
schema
schism
schizophrenia
scholar


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