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صوّت الآندون الإجابةسؤال لغوي بمعني (سؤال في اللغه المقصوده)
the word (spellen ) in Dutch means spell in English ,,, why we pronounce it as Shpellen ?

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BaalSaphot profile picture BaalSaphotSeptember 2016
The word ‘spellen’ indeed means ‘to spell’, but it’s not pronounced as /shpellen/: in German the initial s in combinations like sp- or st- is prounounced like /sh/ [leading to /shp/- and /sht/-], but that’s not the case in Dutch.