Telephone pole

[Beverly Flanigan]

And then there's Juan Williams of NPR, who's clearly [wan].

At 05:15 PM 5/17/2007, you wrote:
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>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 ... "
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>-Wilson
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>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.
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> > > ... i think that there
> > > are plenty of people who don't have hw in native words manage it
> > > frequently in borrowings from spanish.
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> > 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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