Re: [tied] Re: Wuz

At 7:00:29 AM on Thursday, July 15, 2004, tgpedersen wrote:

> *va- > *vo- > *o- is common in Danish. Besides (w)ooze, do
> you know of other similar examples in English (esp. the
> *wo- > *o- part)?

Only in dialect. I don't know the geographical details, but
Scots had <oo>, <oull> 'wool' in the 16th century.

Brian