Re: American dialect of Brithenig

[Padraic Brown <pbrown@nova.umuc.edu>]

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Sally Caves wrote:

> 
> It's even funnier!!!  One of the characters (a bad guy) is named
> "Walker."
> The locals call him: Hwalkros...  like where are they getting the "l"?
> Did they see his name written?  And why would they aspirate the "W"?  
> !!!!

That's funny!  The root is *wolg or *wel.  Maybe he saw all the -h
initials and figured they must all be that way!  Pretty clever locals.

Padraic.  Maybe that should be *Phadric. ;)

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