Re[4]: [tied] Re: Horses' Asses and the Indo-European Homeland

At 4:20:13 PM on Friday, September 26, 2008, Rick
McCallister wrote:

> From: Brian M. Scott <BMScott@...>

>> At 3:35:40 PM on Friday, September 26, 2008, Patrick Ryan
>> wrote:

>>> Aspiration [h] becomes voiced [H] which is assimilated
>>> to the quality of the following vowel: [H] + [a] -> [a]
>>> + [a] -> [aa].

>> Plain loss of initial [h] is common as mud; is anyone
>> aware of a real example of this fortitive process?

> There's additive /h/ in Appalachian English, my cousins
> used to say "Hain't true, hit's a lie!"

Yes, and I'm aware of the same thing in other Englishes.
(Though in the case of <hit> 'it' it might even be a
survival.) But that's very different from Patrick's
process.

Brian