Date:  Wed, 23 Feb 1994 11:42:59 CST

From:  "Donald M. Lance" <ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.BITNET>

Subject: Re: [u]/[ju] in Houston



Peter Gingiss notes that [hy] is more complicated than [hw], and Peter

Trudgill demonstrated a piece of that complexity. Americans seem to have

yod-dropping only in 'coupon' (if yod-dropping is what's involved there; but it

seems to me that this is an individual lexical item). 'Coupon' & 'Houston'...

Earlier in the language the [w] was dropped in 'two' and 'who'.

Is Trudgill's [hu:j] 'huge' related in some way to historical [w] loss before

back vowels, or is it an independent development?

                          DMLance