Re: Word-initial sound changes

Raymond Brown wrote:

> >> And there's always: fy mhed /v@m'hED/ "my head"  :)
> >
> >Surely "fy mhen"? :-)
>
> Wrth gwrs!
> fy mhen /v@m'mhEn/ "my head"
>
> (Must have been hypocaffeinated at the early hour when I wrote)
More likely the only recorded specimen of an early English-Welsh pidgin.
Was that "mhed", as you write, or "mhedd", as the pronunciation suggests?

:-)

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