It's hard to know what was meant, but take the sound [u] or 'oo' as in 'hoot' and put it at the front of a word like "why" transcribed as a kind of diphthong [ "oo" plus "y" ]. Crazy I know, but letter "w" can sometimes be viewed that way, and does show up that way in early childhood "invented spellings." -dh
Dr. David Hargreaves
Professor, Linguistics
Humanities Division
Western Oregon University
(503) 838-8764
http://www.wou.edu/~hargred/
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