Hypercorrection of /w/-/hw/
Mark A. Mandel
mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Tue May 25 14:14:33 UTC 2004
On May 24, 2004, at 10:12 AM, Peter A. McGraw wrote:
> I'm not sure whether this is regional, but I don't recall ever hearing the
> original "Whoa!" pronounced that way by people who actually dealt with
> horses...
Arnold Zwicky replied:
>>>
nor do i (and i used to hang out with lots of people who dealt with
horses). that's why i carefully talked about the discourse marker
"whoa", which doesn't necessarily have the same properties as the horse
command "whoa":
<<<
I have often seen the word spelled "woah", generally or always as a
discourse marker.
-- Mark Mandel
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]
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