[hw-] v. [w]

[Scot LaFaive]

>Now, who was Taurus Bulba?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurus_Bulba
I used to watch that show when I was younger.

Scot


>From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: [hw-] v. [w]
>Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:01:55 -0400
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>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
> >
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> > --Ben Zimmer
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