>Because some people thought it was clever to adopt a nonce pronunciation
>of "one" /Own/, namely /wVn/, and it stuck.
Naaaaah, surely it was drawling. Old English [a:n] > Middle English [o:n],
breaking under stress and so on to [u:@n] then transitioning to [wVn].
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