Lindy didn't get things wrong.  Roger Suhr misunderstood what Lindy
wrote, with little excuse for doing so.  The text "Hund is dog [in
German], but a specific type of animal in English" does not lend
itself at all readily to the interpretation Mr Suhr gave it.

The transformation

Unvoiced T <==> voiced D

was noted and elaborately documented by the brothers Grimm.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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