Re: Re[2]: Whore [was: [tied] Re: Brugmann's Law]

The pronunciation /hu@.../ us generally rural and
obsolete in a large part of the US (Midwest,
Appalachia) and, from what I've heard, Canada. I heard
it in Ireland, "cute hoor" for tricky politician, and
I've heard some Scots use a similar pronuncation.


--- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:

> [I've trimmed the quotes a bit because Yahoo classed
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>
> It might be of some peripheral interest that 'whore'
> is pronounced [hoor] (with [oo] as in 'hood') in
> many places in the Southern US.
>
> Patrick
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brian M. Scott<mailto:BMScott@...>
> To: Piotr
> Gasiorowski<mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 11:03 PM
> Subject: Re[2]: Whore [was: [tied] Re: Brugmann's
> Law]
>
>
> At 6:08:35 PM on Friday, January 18, 2008, Piotr
> Gasiorowski
> wrote:
>
> > But there was no *w in PGmc. *xo:raz 'adulterer'
> and
> > *xo:ro:(n)- 'whore'. The <wh> spelling of Modern
> English
> > is clearly secondary. In Even the Middle English
> spelling
> > is <ho(o)r(e)>, occasionally <h(o)ure>, but
> NEVER anything
> > beginning with <hw> or <wh>.
>
> The sporadic substitution of /hw/ for /h/ before
> /O:/
> appears in the 15th c., if I remember correctly,
> though I
> also seem to remember that the earliest OED
> example for this
> word is from the 16th c. I believe that <whole>
> and <whore>
> are the only two words in which the spelling took
> root,
> though for a time it was not uncommon in some
> others, and I
> believe that there are (or used to be) some
> dialect
> pronunciations in /hw/ or /w/ of words that
> historically had
> /h/.
>
>
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