Re: [tied] Re: Pronunciation of "r" - again?

Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

Andrew Jarrette wrote:


>  Thus the change of
>  /w/ to /v/ occurs, if only in names, even in English.  Perhaps it's
>  an inevitable death of /w/, and English will eventually give in and
>  join the other Indo-European languages in this phenomenon, someday.

This has nothing to do with sound change. It only reflects a growing
awareness of foreign orthographic conventions. It isn't going to make
anyone pronounce <Watt> or <Washington> with /v/ on the analogy of <Wagner>.

-- Yes, I was aware it's not sound change and that it reflects growing awareness of foreign orthographic conventions.  I was deliberately distorting the interpretation (and thought that it would be obvious that I was doing so) to make what I hoped might be considered somewhat humorous remarks.  Obviously I failed.

Andrew