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

From:agricola <agricola@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 2, 2002, 20:15
Ray Brown wrote ( /wro:t/ :) )

>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?
Same place as always: a little way outside Washington. Though, apparently a few centuries behind! Padraic.
>Ray.