... failures and the more mysterious—UFOs, witchcraft, devil's triangles, supernatural and other inexhaustible subjects, such as sleeping (pun intended).

They [gu and qu] were not groups formed of a guttural stop and the semi-vowel v, but guttural stops with a labial aftersound; the latter receiving a very much weaker articulation than the semi-vowel v.

Then he'll tell that danged lap to cut out his tricks, an' come across with the money.

That number was just picked out of a hat.