Re: English is a crazy language

> I played around circa early eighties with
> regularizing the parents' nominals
> - eg, if Mother intimized to Mummy, what about
> intimizing Father to Fuffy?
> Instead of to Daddy, which derives from Welsh.
>
> It never caught on, though ;-)
>
> Wesley parish

This reminds me of an organization I founded during college
called CUIP--Citizens for the Unification of Interrogative
Pronouns. The principal plank in our platform was that all
the "wh" words in English should begin with the same sounds,
so if (forgive my X-SAMPA on the vowels, it's probably
screwy):

when = /hwEn/
where = /hwe@r/
why = /hwaI/
what = /hw@t/

then "who" should be /hwu/.

We even published a single issue of a newsletter, but alas
to no avail.

Paul.