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Date: 2013-08-29 03:22 am (UTC)
Indeed. I don't believe I've ever actually heard a sufferer in mid-whoop, so I honestly don't know. Though I am rather attracted by the notion that we hear different sounds on either side of the pond, if that is actually what's going on. I'm equally but differently attracted by the alternative notion, that the spelling and the sound of the disease and the sound of the word became divorced from each other at some point, and the US went with the spelling regardless, or else the Brits decided that must be a silent W for reasons that only a Brit could find good...
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