Re: [h] approximations (was: /s/ -> /h/ )
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Monday, March 20, 2000, 22:46 |
BP Jonsson wrote:
> Dialectal Scots -- tho
> not Scottish-English, AFAIK -- has [F] for "wh"; you don't by any chance
> hail from those parts?
I think that it's /f/, and only in the northeast. I know it's
definitely written with an <f> (fat = what, fa = who), but that doesn't
mean too much with the Anglo-Saxon family ... :-)
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