[hw-] v. [w]

[Wilson Gray]

Tonight, on a TV cartoon show, "Family Man," I think that it was, the
characters kicked around the [hw-] v. lw] pronunciations, with one of
the [hw-]-speaking characters jokingly noting that, e.g. [wip] in
place of [hwip] sounded "wheird" [hwird].

[wip] in place of [hwip] doesn't sound "wheird," but it does sound
weird. Well not really, though I'm a [hw-] speaker.

-Wilson.
--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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                                              -Sam'l Clemens

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