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But it does affect the pronunciations, which, given in the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet, are (as usual for British dictionaries) for the prestige dialect called Received Pronunciation [ RP ]. In RP, Athanasian is pronounced /a\?
Thus, he tells us, names can exhibit phonetic alternation.
A comparison with some other languages, particularly languages with a largely phonetic spelling system--(German, Italian, Spanish)-- shows that this range of nonstandard spellings is an added bonus that our quirky English spelling system has given to the language.
Presumably, Sumerian or Egyptian accountants--no boob-bookkeepers they!--first substituted signs for pictographs, giving them phonetic instead of semantic values.
For example: kith and kin, wrack and ruin ; in German: mit Kind und Kegel, drauf und dran ; in French: sain et sauf . Alongside such fixed combinations, which seem to adhere to their own rhythmic and phonetic rules, are the playful, nonsensical, purely rhythmical and melodious formulations, which distinctly recall the ancient incantatory cantillations characteristic of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman and latterday hocus pocus.