Re[2]: [tied] *kW- "?"

At 4:10:21 PM on Wednesday, September 21, 2005, Grzegorz
Jagodzinski wrote:

> First, a technical note. I follow the old and GOOD
> tradition to spell H, never h, for "laryngeals" - but we
> do not know their place of articulation (my opinion is
> they were just velar spirants x^, x and xW). So, "gH"
> means for me "g" plus a laryngeal.

In the normal usage here it's the voiced aspirate, and it's
a bit annoying to have to remember each poster's private
conventions.

> And, I use "gh" the same way as in Sanskrit = for a voiced
> aspirated sound. Such a spelling is correct from the view
> of tradition and from the view of IPA (h = aspiration).
> And I cannot understand who and why changed this good old
> custom with the new one, inverse - perhaps only for making
> troubles.

No, it's the result of systematically applying a handy
convention for writing these things in ASCII: an upper-case
letter denotes a superscript. Thus, the <W> in <kW> is a
superscript, as is the <H> in <gH>.

Brian