Re: Latin is a q-Dialect having p- from kW , PIE is similar

> Yes, of course. And the change of Middle English x > f (spelt <gh>)
> after rounded vowels, as in <cough, trough, laugh, enough, rough,
> slough> is even more recent (and _proves_ that such a change can recur
> independently).

But the fact that this is just one development of Middle English x
points to the change being of dia- or sociolect origin, or it would have
been a general rule. Cf preservation of /u/ (Midlands?) in the
non-Germanic p-words put, push, pull.


Torsten