Re: USAGE: writ [was Re: Here, *Here*, and There, *There*]

On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 01:28 , And Rosta wrote:

> Ray:
>> In my 63 and a bit years I've _never_ heard the initial sound of 'writ',
>> 'write', 'wrong' etc pronounced /wr/.   I thought that pronunciation had
>> died out in English a few centuries ago.   In what neck of the woods
>> does agricola live?
>
> Could agricola be a person of your years, living in the Shetland
> Islands?
Now that's a thought   :-)

Ray.