"Whip," "whup," " whoop"

[Wilson Gray]

Has anyone else noticed - and, likewise, perhaps, been annoyed by -
the shift in the eye-dialect spelling of the non-standard
pronunciation of "whip" from "whup" to "whoop"? For me, "whup" has the
pronunciation [hwUp], wherein ]U] is the -oo- of "book." OTOH, "whoop"
is an sE word with the pronunciation, [hup], as in in the blues line,
"Whoopin' [hupIn] 'n' holl'in', screamin' awl night lawng." As a
child, I suffered the indignity of an occasional ass-whuppin'. But, an
ass-*whoopin'*? I don' think so.
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-Wilson Gray