Telephone pole

[Wilson Gray]

And then there are those of us who, despite having [hw] in their
native English, nevertheless use [w] in their rendering of Spanish
[hw] / [xw]. My escuse is that I learned to pronounce "Juanita," etc.
as "Wahneetuh," etc. before I had any idea what sound the letter "j"
represented in Spanish. Of course, I've always said, "Hwahn that
Aprille ... "

-Wilson

On 5/17/07, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On May 17, 2007, at 12:45 PM, i wrote, erroneously:
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> > it's immediately followed by a stresseded syllable.
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> stressed, but not stuttered.
>
> > ... i think that there
> > are plenty of people who don't have hw in native words manage it
> > frequently in borrowings from spanish.
>
> a cut 'n' paste error, combining
>    there are plenty of people who don't have hw in native words who
> [or: but] manage it frequently...
> and
>    that plenty of people who don't have hw in native words manage it
> frequently...
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