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

Ray Brown wrote:
> But the spelling {quh} once used in Scotland must surely imply something
> like [xw] or [Xw] being used
I read of an argument given in the 17th (?) century for the spelling
"quh" describing it as a "guttural" sound, "not like w at all".  The
Englishman then merely replied that "he understood his arguments, but
his premise was Scottish, and therefore wrong" :-)

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