On 10 Apr 2012, at 21:02, Craig Weatherhill wrote: > Yes, but I'm only talking about the lenited form. In that case it's a question of residual rounding on [ʷɹ] and [ɹ] and [ʷl] and [l] Old English wrítan used to have /ʷr/ but the rounding was lost there too. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/