[hw-] v. [w]

[Scot LaFaive]

I don't have an [h] anywhere near my [w]'s (Wisconsin dialect), so I don't
even know what this sounds like. Any good sound files for this?

Scot


>From: sagehen <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM>
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>Subject: Re: [hw-] v. [w]
>Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:27:55 -0400
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> >I still contend it is -wh- , not -hw-, the -w- being a
> >vowel (hence its name, double u), unstressed, often
> >unvoiced, before the -h-. .]
> >
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>See, or more to the point listen to, Flanders & Swann: " I'm a Gnu".
>
> >  [I do not put an -h- in -weird-, there is no -h- in -weird-, it's
> >pronounced >(ou)eared.
>
>This was, of course, a joke.
>
>Back to  [hw-] v. [w] in general, do non-hw speakers carry this even to the
>word "whistle?"
>AM
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