Re: Scots dialects with wh > f alive and kicking

And that same sound shift has taken place in Polynesian languages.  In NZ
Maori "whetu" is pronounced "fetu".  I've seen too many ignorant idiots'
letters-to-the-editor castigate the "ignorant" Maori for a prounciation
that's just a standard sound shift.

On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 02:20, John Cowan wrote:
> And here's the evidence:
> http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/corpus/search/document.php?documentid=545
> The first word of the text, "faar", corresponds to English "where".
> It's interesting, though, that the one bit of quoted Scots text
> (as opposed to the narrative) is in a wh-dialect: "Whotten bonny".
>
> Thanks to http://www.languagelog.com for the pointer.
>
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