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English’s voiceless "wh" (hw?) | ||
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| Camundonguinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4751 days ago 273 posts - 500 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 25 of 28 28 November 2011 at 8:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks 1974
''Pretty girls are every[hw]ere'' http://youtu.be/cd_Fdly3rX8 ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| shadowcalm Triglot Newbie Taiwan Joined 5977 days ago 29 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Latin, Ancient Greek, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 26 of 28 02 December 2011 at 9:59am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm from the Midwest never use /ʍ/ in my speech. A friend from Florida, on the other hand, always makes a distinction and finds it downright odd that I don't. He's normally very consistent, but once I heard him begin the word "werewolf" with /ʍ/, and I pointed it out. Of course, that's a fairly low frequency item, but he quipped, "Well, it's like 'Where wolf? There wolf!'"
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6013 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 27 of 28 02 December 2011 at 10:26am | IP Logged | ||
The thing with low frequency items is that you often pick them up from the TV, and with a more "standard" accent. There were words I learnt from English voices on TV, and as there was nothing in the accent to tell me whether it was a "wh" word or a "w" word, I had to decide for myself which to use, and this was an unconscious process -- my brain picked it for me. And I used to say "wherewolf", until my older siblings (who could read) told me it was /w/. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Camundonguinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4751 days ago 273 posts - 500 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 28 of 28 07 February 2012 at 1:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Lana del Rey pronounces WH as HW in one of her songs (Diet Mountain Dew) in the word: WHY (''I don't know [hwai] but I like it'') ;)
She's a 25 year old singer from Lake Placid, NY. hit me and tell me you're mine i don't know why but i like it scary, my god, you're divine gimme them gimme them dope and diamonds (Un)fortunately this was deleted on the album version because it was a bit too disturbing for general public. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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