[hw-] v. [w]

[sagehen]

>I still contend it is -wh- , not -hw-, the -w- being a
>vowel (hence its name, double u), unstressed, often
>unvoiced, before the -h-. .]
>
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See, or more to the point listen to, Flanders & Swann: " I'm a Gnu".

>  [I do not put an -h- in -weird-, there is no -h- in -weird-, it's
>pronounced >(ou)eared.

This was, of course, a joke.

Back to  [hw-] v. [w] in general, do non-hw speakers carry this even to the
word "whistle?"
AM

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