Re: OT: Definitely Not YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Cw occurs in many native English words.  E.g., twin, queen, dwarf,
> swine, thwart.  But, I think those might be the only native Cw
> combinations.
thwart is Old Norse

Other native words:
OE in brackets

quake (cwacian) qualm (cwealm) quell (cwellan) quick (cwic) dwell (dwellan)
dwindle (freq of dwnan) sweat (swetan) swan (swan) swathe (swathum) swallow
(swealwe) swarm (swearmian) swarthy (swearth) swell (swellan) swelter (sweltan)
swear (swerian) sweep swipe swoop (swpan) sweet (swte) swift (swift) swim
(swimman) swing (swingan) twain (twgen) twelve (twelf) twinge (twengan) twenty
(twntig)

David Barrow

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