[Ads-l] the eradication of hw

[Barretts Mail]

Good point. I meant eradication in some people’s inventories. I had expected that people would still to pronounce it, but this seems to be evidence that those people do not have it as a possible pronunciation.

That said, your point about the silent “h” is another good explanation. 

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

> On 5 Feb 2019, at 16:40, Mark Mandel <Mark.A.Mandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> You and i* and our fellow ADSers know that /ʍ/ exists in English even if
> not in our dialect. A layperson who's never heard it, or never noticed it,
> might well be unaware of its existence, and consider the initial <h> in
> <Huawei> as comparable to that in <honest>.
> 
> *Fun² that lowercase I I am sick and tired of this phone's misreading of my
> Swypes.
> 
> ² but *this* 1 I think is best left alone
> 
> Mark Mandel
> 
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2019, 3:40 PM Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> Although I still meet people of various ages who have the /hw/ sound, I
>> never had it, but I was surprised to hear a person not using /hw/ in the
>> name Huawei. It might have been the first time I’d ever heard the name
>> pronounced.
>> 
>> Although most people probably imitate others, this points to a complete
>> eradication of the /hw/ sound in people’s phonemic inventories.
>> 
>> Tom Cotton (about 0:17), posted 13 Feb 2018
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=j1-defKFUGU <
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=j1-defKFUGU>
>> 
>> Best Huawei Phones in 2018 - Which Is The Best Huawei Smartphone?
>> by 10BestOnes
>> 20 Jun 2018
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5krLykrpO9c <
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5krLykrpO9c>
>> 
>> with /hw/
>> Best Huawei phones you can buy right now
>> by Android Authority
>> 7 Oct 2017
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6a6YiN3APg <
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6a6YiN3APg>
>> 
>> Benjamin Barrett
>> Formerly of Seattle, WA
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