/w/-/hw/ again

[Charles Doyle]

Not "who" or "whole" or "whore" . . .

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:52:18 -0500
>From: "Dennis R. Preston" <preston at MSU.EDU>
>
>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, etc..., but not who.)
>
>dInIs

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