[hw-] v. [w]

[Wilson Gray]

Yes, it was a repeat. Had I any idea how closely TV cartoons are
followed by the ADS-L family, I wouldn't have bothered to post.

Now, who was Taurus Bulba?

-Wilson

On 7/30/07, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> Quoting Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com>:
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> > 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.
>
> That's "Family Guy"... it must've been a repeat of an episode from last
> December. See Mark Liberman's post on Language Log:
>
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003988.html
>
>
> --Ben Zimmer
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