Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: Latin is a q-Dialect having p- from kW , P

And /brow/ in the US, at least all the people I've mey
with that last name. I've heard Hough as /ha:k/ and
/h@.../ although I wonder is the former were originally
named Hoch. In Texas, I've heard drought as /draT/,
often spelled <droth>


--- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> At 2:15:40 PM on Monday, May 14, 2007, Piotr
> Gasiorowski
> wrote:
>
> > On 2007-05-14 15:34, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> Any particular geographical distribution of x ->
> f ?
>
> > It occurs throughout England. Words like <drought>
> often
> > have /f/ in traditional dialects. Dialectal words
> like
> > <broft> are (or at least used to be) particularly
> common
> > in the conservative dialects of the West Country
> (esp.
> > Devonshire, Cornwall).
>
> And off in the other direction the place-name
> <Brough> is
> (or was in recent times) [brVf] in Derbyshire,
> Nottinghamshire, and Westmorland, and [brUf] in
> Yorkshire
> North Riding (according to Ekwall).
>
> [...]
>
> Brian
>
>
>

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