How is wl- pronounced? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The pronunciation of wl and wr is so ingrained that Minkova need not cover how they would be pronounced in Old English; meanwhile, she carefully documents how the sounds would have changed into Middle English
pronunciation - Silent w in words starting with wr- - English . . . 18 Not My Field, so subject to correction: In Old English the “voiced labiovelar approximant” w was in fact pronounced in the initial clusters wr and wl Lass, Cambridge History of the English Language describes the loss of this pronunciation in the context of “Onset-cluster reduction” (III, page 122):
grammaticality - Is arent I correct grammar? - English Language . . . Aren't I? is standard English as the negative interrogative of I am So it is correct Ain't I? is also common though regarded as a lower register Am I not? sounds far too picky I am, init? is also used, though I hate it Amn't I might be logical, but only seems to exist, if at all, in Scottish or Irish dialect
How is the ending -le or -el determined? - English Language Usage . . . The correct answer is that it is linked to the root source of the word as modified by various dictionary inclusions Was the root Latin, Greek, was it a verb or a noun, who put it into a Dictionary first, was that dictionary in the UK or in the US of A The practical answer is that there is no real rule or logic Just some vague guidelines with 1000 years of exceptions When the Normans
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I have a question for you Vs I have a question to you I think this chart is quite striking, suggesting the enormous difference that copy editors, most of them probably blindly using the same grammar-and-style manual, make for the printed world Zero instances of "have a question to you"!! Google says it has about 2,610,000 instances of "I have a question to you" vs only 549,000 instances of "I have a question for you" Of course, Google hit