Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 15:43:42 EST

From: Arnold Zwicky zwicky[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]LING.OHIO-STATE.EDU

Subject: Re: pragmatic change in progress?



i agree with DInIs [preston] entirely. these occurrences of WHY

are entirely natural for me - hey, i'm three years older than

DInIS, so i'm even more of an old codger - *and* the discourse

WHY has /w/ while the interrogative WHY has /hw/. (not everything

spelled wh is pronounced with /hw/, even for folks like me who

hwinny. WHOA *never* has /hw/, in particular.)



arnold (zwicky[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ling.ohio-state.edu)