Re: Vacillare

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 61983
Date: 2008-12-08

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> > I suppose most wankers do so because they've left to their own devices

> That verb had to come up sooner or later.
> How come it has /ä/, not /å/ as expected after /w/?

Because a following velar prevents the rounding. The rule seems to
have too low a yield to be taught as a reading aid, and as time
marches on the exceptions grow.

Richard.