/w/-/hw/ again

[Wilson Gray]

A blues verse:

I moang git me a blade
One thet I kin affode
Too lawng t' be ey knife
Too shawt t' be ey swode

The pronunciation of the /w/ is "standard" in BE. I personally use
[sword], simply because I want to. I'd also like to use "igh" as the
spelling for "I" just because it better resembles, e.g. German _ich_
in comparative-linguistic lists of correspondences. But it'd prbably
just make people think that I was weird. :-)

-Wilson

On Dec 28, 2007 2:24 PM, Dennis R. Preston <preston at msu.edu> wrote:
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> But lots of C = /k/ + w before [o].
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> A gob of [sword] pronouncers out there by the way.
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> >Probably not. [Cw] generally > [C] / __ [o] (possibly [+round], but I
> >don't have my references handy to confirm this).
> >
> >So in addition to the whole and whore offered by Charles Doyle, we
> >have <sword> pronounced [sord].
> >
> >Barbara
> >
> >On 28 Dec 2007, at 12:52, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
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> >>  Yes; but not my sense of "ever"; I meant is there
> >>  any attested modern survival of a /hw/ in "who"
> >>  (as there obviosuly are in my own mouth for what,
> >>  where, why,metc..., but not who.)
> >>
> >>  dInIs
> >>
> >>>  Poster:       Barbara Need <nee1 at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU>
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> >>>  Yes. In Old English (hwa)!
> >>>
> >>>  Barbara
> >>>
> >>>  Barbara Need
> >>>  UChicago
> >>>
> >>>  On 27 Dec 2007, at 16:27, Dennis Preston wrote:
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> >>>>   Has there ever been a pronunciation of "who" with /hw/?
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> >>>>   dInIs
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