Our dear, foolish Zigesar always writes to me, "ew.
"Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1"
Francis Hueffer (translator)
The following list of trees is given by Chaucer in the Knight's tale- "The names that the trees highte,- As ook, firre, birch, aspe, alder, holm, popeler, Wylugh, elm, plane, assh, box, chasteyn, lynde, laurer, Mapul, thorn, beck, hasel, ew, whippeltre."
"The Romance of Names"
Ernest Weekley
I is joined with eu in lieu, and ew in view; which triphthongs are sounded as the open u.
"A Grammar of the English Tongue"
Samuel Johnson