/w/-/hw/ again

[Mark Mandel]

On Dec 28, 2007 2:24 PM, Dennis R. Preston <preston at msu.edu> wrote:

> But lots of C = /k/ + w before [o].
>
> A gob of [sword] pronouncers out there by the way.
>

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And many of them probably in the same small subset of the population that
sometimes uses "sward".

And if they mumble it, they're "sword" swallowers.

m a m

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