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| laiwai Diglot Groupie SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6842 days ago 66 posts - 71 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 25 of 110 24 May 2009 at 3:03am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Why not read more hear: Wine-whine merger Edited by laiwai on 24 May 2009 at 3:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Rout Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5712 days ago 326 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish Studies: Hindi | Message 26 of 110 24 May 2009 at 5:47am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I have noticed out of the people who do use 'what' as opposed to 'wut,' the former seem to have more acumen in the English language and are more well-read. Given my location, if I hadn't had the insight to study I might use the same improper pronunciation as that of the latter.
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| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6122 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 27 of 110 24 May 2009 at 2:14pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Kudos on your research skills. That seems to be a very accurate summary. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Rout Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5712 days ago 326 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish Studies: Hindi | Message 28 of 110 25 May 2009 at 12:23am | IP Logged | ||||||||
It's a wiki article.... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
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Yes, I mean, nice job of finding an article that accurately summarizes the data. I have lived in the southeast US most of my life and I can generally identify the twang that accompanies the contrast pronunciation. The shaded area on the map is indeed where you generally hear it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| anthox Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6000 days ago 13 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Portuguese, Polish, Russian | Message 30 of 110 26 May 2009 at 9:49pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Wut? I don't know where you're from (somewhere in the south?), but even without aspirating the 'w' or making a "ridiculous [c]harade", my pronunciations of 'well' and 'whale' are completely distinguishable. Do you confuse SELL and SALE, or TELL and TALE? What about WELL and WAIL (which I would pronounce exactly like 'whale')? Edit: @ the OP, you probably are aware of this but I figured I'd mention anyway that "who" is an exception here, being pronounced like "hoo" rather than "woo", which I've never heard in any dialect. Edited by anthox on 26 May 2009 at 9:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
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Same wiki article: Labialization of /h/ and delabialization of /hw/ Gotta love that pedia... Edited by laiwai on 27 May 2009 at 12:01am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
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