Re: Brugmann's Law

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 51427
Date: 2008-01-18

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

> This also brings up the <wh> or /hw/ of whore --is it
> an affected spelling or the real thing. The word is
> never pronounced as /hw/ AFAIK and the dialect forms
> I'm aware of are /hu@.../ and /ho?/ --unless there's
> some obscure Scots form such as *hwuwr, *hwyr, *fyr or
> the like

See http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/15090 .

Richard.