"hur": the new 3rd (and 2nd) person neutral pronoun!

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jan 24 14:56:13 UTC 2008


"restructuredd" is a clear case of Welsh influence.

m a m

On Jan 23, 2008 4:49 PM, Paul Johnston <paul.johnston at wmich.edu> wrote:

> What you got here in the first case is something that you not only
> find in Wales, but in the adjoining West Midlands also--the direct
> descendant of OE  heo "she", which became /ho// (that's o-slash) in
> West Central Britain and got conflated with "her", both in rhotic and
> non-rhotic dialects in the region, and restructuredd accordingly.  In

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