Re: The letter R
| From: | Raymond A. Brown <raybrown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 26, 1999, 22:01 |
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At 4:35 pm -0500 26/3/99, Brian Betty wrote:
>Ed Heil wrote: "Speaking of French Rs, as I remember, Haitian French/Creole
>seemed to me to change the uvular R to a labial approximant (w), so that it
>took me forever to realize that the fellow whose name was pronounced
>"On-Wee" was "Henri.""
>
>Haitian Creole actually DOES change the r > w. In voudoun, great spirit
>lords are referred to as "gwan ange," ie. Great Angels ...
>
Sort of like Elmer Fludd :)
Ray.