Timeline for Silent "w" in words starting with "wr-"
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| Apr 10, 2017 at 7:28 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | This is completely untrue. To nearly all Americans, the mouth is also positioned for a w when pronouncing reck/rite, because all initial /r/’s are labialised. There are dialects where this is not the case (most prominently Scottish dialects), but in these, /wr/ also tends not to be labialised. | |
| Feb 13, 2016 at 5:41 | comment | added | herisson | I absolutely would say "Let's rite." It's one of the three Rs, after all: reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic. Are you sure that you can actually hear a consistent distinction? It's easy to imagine that kind of thing. | |
| Feb 13, 2016 at 2:38 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Feb 13, 2016 at 2:20 | history | answered | Seth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |