Re: Velarization (was: English: Thou)

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> Remember Mr. Walenza <Wa\-lenza> /wawenza/?
Actually, Wa<l-slash><e-ogonek>sa /vawE~sa/.

> I vaguely remember a large shouting match on sci.lang --- I think the
> upshot was that in Warsaw (standard) Polish, /w/ is spelled both <w>
> and <\-l>, with no phonemic difference
My understanding is that "w" is /v/ and "<l-slash>" is /w/.

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