On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 19:54:12 -0500, John Cowan <jcowan@...>
wrote:
>Jeff Jones scripsit:
>>
>> On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 17:58:47 -0500, John Cowan <jcowan@...>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Tristan scripsit:
>> >
>> >> Quhile?
>> >
>> >The old Scots form of "while", probably pronounced /xwail/.
>>
>> You mean either /hwail/ or [xw@il] don't you?
>
>I think that the raising of [ai] had not yet happened in the 16th century
>when these "quh-" spellings were common.
Really? I always thought that the "raised" form was older: [i:] > [@i] >
[ai].
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