Talk:huus
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This might not be the right place for this request.
At huus#Dutch_Low_Saxon someone claims that "huus" and "hoes" would be alternative spellings. That's untrue, the pronunciations differ. Most people speaking (or at least understanding) Plat would know that. Anyone studying the language(s) would know Heeroma's "Hollandic expansion" theory which is based on that (online I found the link http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_voo004199501_01/_voo004199501_01_0005.php, not Heeroma himself, but a stable link with an English summary). --80.114.178.7 01:42, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
- The header over the link to hoes is "Alternative forms" (not e.g. "Alternative spellings", which isn't a standard header anywhere, anyway, even when the only difference is spelling/orthography). Alternative forms may or may not have the same pronunciation; see e.g. epizootic and grievous. Where is it being claimed that huus and hoes have the same pronunciation? (The usage note? I assume it's contrasting other orthographies/variants like hus / hūs / etc. But it could be changed to form for clarity.) - -sche (discuss) 03:57, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
- (Yes, the usage note). I don't think anyone would write hus (the vowel is long). I don't know an orthography which uses hūs (but I don't even know one orthography well enough to write Low Saxon). As I understand it, Veluws huus and Sallaands huus might look and sound the same, but they have different etymologies. Veluws regularly has the umlaut oe → uu, but Sallaands hasn't (well, it has umlaut for diminutives and plurals), so huus can only be a loanword from Dutch.
- If someone from Twente (outside Vriezenveen) would write huus, they probably also write muus (or one of their parents is from a region saying huus). The "German" use of "uu"/"üü" is better suited for Sallaands and Twents than "Dutch" "oe"/"uu", but almost everyone speaker of Dutch Low German has already learned Dutch spelling conventions. --80.114.178.7 07:18, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
- You are correct, this isn't the right place to raise this. Renard Migrant (talk) 11:02, 21 March 2015 (UTC)