Re: Your first "linguistic" memory


"Aidan Kehoe" <kehoea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...
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> Ar an triú lá déag de mí Eanair, scríobh Seán O'Leathlóbhair:
>
> > > Do which and witch have different initial phonemes in "the" language
> > > "English"?
> >
> > Not in my version. I have heard it done but it may have been an
> > affectation rather than genuine.
>
> Johnny Cash's records have the difference; I make it, and the OED says
> Scottish speakers did too when the entry for <wh> was being written.

Indeed, Scottish and most Irish (not Belfast) speakers do it today. Few
English and Welsh do, except for those who have consciously taught
themselves to.

John.


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