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

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.

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.