Re: Wuz

At 2:50:08 PM on Tuesday, October 9, 2007, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>> But the /w/ > /g, v/ dichotomy is due to regional
>> and/or diachronic considerations, right?

> AFAIK Germanic loans in Old French (and in Western Romance
> in general) had /w/ which later > /gW/ (> /g/),

Not in the northern dialects, which retained initial /w/ in
Gmc. loans and Latin words contaminated by them.

Brian