LL-L "Literature" 2006.03.04 (01) [E]

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From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder at WORLDONLINE.NL>
Subject: LL-L "Literature" 2006.03.03 (07) [E]

Wow, what wonderful writing!

I am curious if and how native English speakers still distinguish
<w> and <wh> in their pronunciation.  
For me and other Dutchophones they usually sound the same, and I pronounce 
both as <w>, so I wouldn't tell e.g. whether and weather from each other.  
But maybe some regional pronos or sociolect still have <wh> ('hw')?

Wondering which,
Ingmar 

Karl Schulte wrote:
>
>Winter Wander
>(Ver. 3)
>
>Whither Wander We?
>When Winter, wielding wild wet whiteness,
>Wrought with wretched, witless woe,
>Wreaks whorling, whirlwind, winning warfare,
>What wasted, weeping weanlings we.
>Winter-wrapped, we wander weary.
>Whither?  Wonder we.
>
>Whither wander we?
>While white, withering winter waxes,
>Wistful were we,wearily waning.
>Whether wending, winding - wherever
>Wasted, woebegone we waver.
>Whither warming, wooded weal?
>Whereunto will we wander?
>Whither?  Wonder we.

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