#19
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(‘s’ is most popular (a world unto itself) / slip into ‘music’)
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(‘semitic’ Šîn (“teeth”) represented a ‘voiceless postalveolar fricative’ /ʃ/ (as in ship))
(‘Greek’ did not have this sound, so the Greek sigma (Σ) came to represent /s/)
(in ‘etruscan’ and ‘latin’, the /s/ value was maintained, and only in modern languages has the letter been used to represent other sounds)
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