Hypercorrection of /w/-/hw/

[Douglas Bigham]

Interesting side bit... I never thought I came from a sincere /hw/ land, but
after spending this past year *real* collected data, it turns out I do.
Mostly (that is, for most of my speakers) it's just preserved to distinguish "when"
from "win" (and less often "where" from "were"), but (and here's the fun
part), I've also heard it pop up a couple of times in "well", in all age groups.
Go figure.

-doug

-dsb
Douglas S. Bigham
Department of Linguistics
University of Texas - Austin
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