Wuxtry-Wuxtry quiery

[James Kyllo]

If this:

Mickey Wuxtry-Wuxtry
The last name is the archetypal newsboy's cry: "Wuxtry! Wuxtry!
[Extra! Extra!] Read all about it!"

from: http://english2.mnsu.edu/larsson/gr4.html#wuxtry

is the derivation, then "put"

But bear in mind - as Map 130 in the very wonderful "Word Maps: A
Dialect Atlas of England" illustrates, the "u" in put is pronounced
"uh" (which is what I guess you mean by "as in cut") in Wales, Devon
and chunks of the Midlands and the South Coast.

And elsewhere the "u" in cut would be pronounced "oo" (as in foot),
which I guess is what you mean by "as in put".

So I don't think there is a definitive answer.




On 6/26/07, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I need to transcribe that into an obscure language not quite spoke in the
> known dimensions, so just to be on the safe side: is 'u' pronounced like 'u'
> in cut or in put?
>
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