Re: [xml-dev] German lesson

[John Cowan <johnwcowan@gmail.com>]

On 2017-04-06 23:26, Hans-Juergen Rennau wrote:

Wort - word

Wert - value

Notice how a slight shift of vowel turns word into value and turns value into word, and remember that in the beginning was the Word.

In English it's "word" vs. "worth" (although we don't use "worth" as a technical term), and so the difference is in the final consonant. 

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