> Ar 12:37 -0800 2000-06-15, scríobh brendan_murray@lotus.com:
>
> >The requirement for Euro was definitely very important, but as I remember
> >the discussions, it was only with very great difficulty that any examples
> >of Finnish text was produced.
>
> "s^ekki" ('cheque' or 'check') is an extremely common word and it is not
at
> all difficult to find examples of s^ and z^ in Finnish. They are not
common
> letters, but they are certainly used.
Well, it is not *that* common anymore, cheque being very much a dead and
obsolete
method of monetary exchange in Finland (it's all electronic nowadays)...but
yes,
the word most certainly is still a living word. Another one would be
"s^akki"
or "chess". In general, the "s^" and "z^" are used to transliterate the
various
"sh" and "zh" sounds in relatively recent loan words (one can see a lot of
them
in transliterated Slavic names).
-- Jarkko Hietaniemi <jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com>
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