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On Friday, September 8, 2023 at 4:58:31 PM UTC-4, Ross Clark wrote:
> On 9/09/2023 2:38 a.m., wugi wrote:
> > Op 8/09/2023 om 15:38 schreef Peter T. Daniels:
> >> On Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 4:31:15 PM UTC-4, wugi wrote:
> >>> Op 7/09/2023 om 17:47 schreef bruce bowser:
> >>>> On Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 5:06:24 PM UTC-4, wugi wrote:
> >>>>> Op 6/09/2023 om 16:26 schreef bruce bowser:
> >>
> >>>>>> What who where when why?
> >>>>> Whow many?
> >>>> Ja. altijd de vraag van wie viel oder wieviel?
> >>>
> >>> Yes, many ugly friends between us. Brombeer(e).
> >>>
> >>> And hwy and hwow did English choose to invert its spelling of hwat, hwo,
> >>> hwere, hwen, hwy?
> >>
> >> Because all the other h digraphs have the h in second place?
> >
> > Ah, I`d read that before. Only that in the other cases h modifies the
> > previous consonnant, but the h`s in this case are/were morphemes in
> > their own right, and place.
> Not morphemes, but phonemes, yes. Historically OE /hw/ was from *kw.
Thanks, that explains it. Question kwestion hw
That fits well with xyua(mb)uatl who how what que qua quo where when
> OE had other h+C clusters (hl, hr, hn), but the /h/ was lost from those
> by the end of OE, leaving
as an isolated sequence. (ModE still has
> a /hy/ cluster (huge, hew), but AFAIK it has never been spelled with a
> digraph.)
> So at best, analogy has messed up this
> > `correct` spelling.
> > Maybe it`s disappearing by now, but I`ve met English speakers who
> > pronounced clear and conspicuous "hwat"s, "hwen"s and "hwy"s.
Wit not whit
What not watt
Witch watch not whit what
No confusion of the sounds, always distinct.
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