[hw] v. [w]

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Has anybody else seen the episode of "Family Guy" concerning, in a
> subplot, the proper pronunciation of words spelled with initial wh-?
> The characters that use [w] for both w- and wh- are shocked by the
> characters that distinguish w- [w] from wh- [hw].

We had a long thread on that last year, remember?

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0707E&L=ADS-L&P=1606

Cited therein:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003988.html

The Youtube clip given in the LL post is no longer available, but you
can see it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lich59xsjik


--Ben Zimmer

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