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Examples

  • "They was seven-hunduhd an 'twe've folks heah yestahday," he says.

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

  • But precisely because there is something there to twe .. twe … FIX, the problems are exactly that: fixable.

    Think Progress » EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Coordinating Wall Street’s Stealth Lobbying Campaign To Kill Reform 2010

  • We see this same simplification of pronominal stems between noun cases in PIE when *tu with back high vowel in the default nominative case opposes *twe.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Second, there are the additional D and T-series signs (e.g. ta2 or twe), that are considerably rare in linear A texts (some of the signs aren't represented at all).

    A new value for Minoan 'd' 2009

  • The second and last examples show a vital difference between them since *tu becomes *tʷa PIE *twe, n.b. vocalism secondarily affected by *me PIE *to-.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • We see this same simplification of pronominal stems between noun cases in PIE when *tu with back high vowel in the default nominative case opposes *twe.

    Laryngeal overdose in the Indo-European second person 2009

  • I don't think we can learn much from some symbols, like those representing twe, pte or dwo, since they don't necessarily come from Linear A values, or these values may have changed in the B script eg. maybe LA *tu → LB twe or LA *to → LB dwo as a couple of possibilities for the sake of argument.

    A new value for Minoan 'd' 2009

  • If we disregard the additional T and D signs such as ta2, twe, two, dwe and dwo - more on these later, we may get a perfect pair of the simple T and the ejective TH.

    A new value for Minoan 'd' 2009

  • Given the girlishness of the image, I'm pretty sure tweeteen is twelve--twe twelve and teen because by golly she's a teen even if she is 12.

    I'm This Many 2009

  • The second and last examples show a vital difference between them since *tu becomes *tʷa PIE *twe, n.b. vocalism secondarily affected by *me PIE *to-.

    Prehistoric isoglosses in Proto-Steppe 2009

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