And lo on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:44:05 +0100, Stephen <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom>  
did spake, saying:

> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:18:24 +0100, "Phil Cook"
> <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
>
>>
>> Another way to look at it is cyan as ki-an, because from known examples
>> "c" is always hard in English when it's the first letter. So we'd could
>> also get ky-me for chime for similar reasons. Of course you could spot
>> that cy and ch correspond to different sounds in foreign
>> derivative/original words, but that assumes you're working with a full
>> representative one-to-one vocabulary. IOW it's educated guesswork.
>
> Hmm!

Taciturn - should that be a hard c or a soft c? :-P

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