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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 ... :-) -- "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor