Date:  Wed, 1 Dec 1993 23:11:41 -0700

From:  Rudy Troike <RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ARIZVMS.BITNET>

Subject: Re: th/dh



    On Larry Horn's /hawzwayvs/ example, it's worth remembering that

<hussy>, with /s/ and /z/, though I don't know anything about the distribution

of the difference, came from OE <huswif>. When and where the voicing

developed would be hard to determine. His example seems to be idiosyncratic,

since no one has responded to it, but it is suggestive of how change starts.

    --Rudy Troike