ah/ awe

[Tom Zurinskas]

OK. I'll give it a try.  To get it straight, the "wh" is spoken "hw" not
"wh" right.  (hwich makes no sense hwatsoever.  Hwy thy say it that I'll
never know.  But I'll do hwut you say for a hwile.

Tom Z

>From: "Gordon, Matthew J." <GordonMJ at MISSOURI.EDU>

>
>My point about the wh/w distinction was to give you a sense of what =
>you're up against. You seem convinced that a merger can be reversed by =
>explicit teaching, so I'm suggesting you try it yourself. Train yourself =
>to pronounce <wh> words with [hw]. Then tape record your speech for a =
>few days and see how consistently you keep it up.

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