Re: USAGE: writ [was Re: Here, *Here*, and There, *There*]
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 1, 2002, 5:36 |
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On Sunday, June 30, 2002, at 06:47 , Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> Quoting agricola <agricola@...>:
>
>> Also, it'd be pronounced /wrItiN/. :)
>>
>> /rItiN/ would be the present participle of "rit", i.e., to apply RIT to
>> a
>> lice infested school child. ;)
>
> What? In all my experience, a <writ> (as in "of habeas corpus")
> has always been [rIt]; the onset cluster [wr] is complete disallowed
> for me, not surprisingly, since it flagrantly violates sonority
> contour principles.
/wr/ does occur in Welsh, and I can pronounce Wrecsam (Wrexham) in
both the Welsh & the English manner; the English is always pronounced
simply with initial /r/.
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?
Ray.
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