LL-L: "Place names" LOWLANDS-L, 25.APR.2001 (03) [E]

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From: Andy Eagle <Andy.Eagle at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L: "Place names" [E]

Sandy Fleming wrote:
<snip>
> However, as noted in the SND, when a word with /wh/ is said emphatically
in
> modern Scots, the sound is pronounced [xW], eg "What?" being pronounced
> [xWQ?]. Whether this is a vestigial remnant of an earlier pronunciation, I
> don't know.

It is generally assumed that older Scots <qhu> was pronounced [xM] In the
first half of the last century linguists did record such pronunciations as
[xw] among older speakers of periferal dialects.

Andy

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