Re: Re[6]: [tied] Re: [pieml] Labiovelars versus Palatals + Labiovel

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 61229
Date: 2008-11-02

--- On Sun, 11/2/08, Brian M. Scott <BMScott@...> wrote:

> From: Brian M. Scott <BMScott@...>
> Subject: Re[6]: [tied] Re: [pieml] Labiovelars versus Palatals + Labiovelar Approximant
> To: "Arnaud Fournet" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008, 11:21 AM
> At 4:18:35 AM on Sunday, November 2, 2008, Arnaud Fournet
> wrote:
>
> > From: "Rick McCallister"
> <gabaroo6958@...>
>
> [...]
>
> >> Au contraire mon frère, the columnist George Will
> says
> >> /aen hIstriy/ all the time. It's especially
> common among
> >> conservative writers in the US.
>
> > I don't think unnatural affected speech should be
> taken as
> > proof of anything about real English.
>
> I don't know anything about the speech of conservative
> writers, but I've known a number of people who did in
> fact
> say /@n hI'stOr@.../ occasion/event/fact/..., and
> it's a
> variation that I've seen discussed.
>
> Brian

It's something I've only come across from readers and writers of the National Review. My view is that it's probably the result of a resurrected /h/ that was pulled from the grave