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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2658020, member: 83956&quot;]Would you believe I&#039;m actually teaching Grimm&#039;s Law next week in my HEL class?&nbsp; I give them a bunch of Latin/Greek &gt;&gt;&gt; Germanic word pairs&nbsp; and they have to generate the sound changes and determine what is systematic about them in terms of articulation. That way they generate Grimm&#039;s law from the ground up.&nbsp; It&#039;s much more effective than just giving them the law and having them memorize it. They actually have to figure it out for themselves. I explain Verners Law, but we don&#039;t do much with that because&nbsp; it only deals with certain exceptions to Grimm&#039;s&nbsp; law, and it&#039;s a bit more involved. Then it&#039;s off to umlaut and Old English!</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, I have thoroughly enjoyed this discussion of sound changes. But I read Ed&#039;s link, and indeed that T form is very strange on the coin. I am inclined to subscribe to the &quot;sampi&quot; double-sigma reading. But I will include both explanations in my notes on this coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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