Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?
idiomaddict@feddit.de 10 months agoIs there a large perceptible pronunciation difference? Because if not med and mot being opposites seems like it’s rife for sitcom hijinks
kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
There is, yeah, /meːd/ and /muːt/
idiomaddict@feddit.de 10 months ago
Thank you! That makes sense, I forgot north Germanic languages don’t do final devoicing. In German, the d would be pronounced as /t/ in that position.