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!
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Regards
     Stephen

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