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)