Re: CHAT: the consonant QUH

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> So where does a rational person put the <h> to denote aspiration ---
> Urqhuart or Urquhart? Both are weird, but they chose the latter. (Very
> possibly because because printers at the time had many more <qu> types
> than single <q>s and <u>s in their cases).
"Quh" [k^W] is the Scots parallel to English "wh"; Middle Scots was
riddled with quhats, quhoises, and quhiches.

> To me the name looks like it should have three syllables, but it never
> did. The current English pronunciation is something like /3:k3d/,
> isn't it?
Yes.  When I saw the first TV series, I thought the name was "Ercott".

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