I still pronounce the h when I'm enunciating. On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:38 AM, rkg <rkg@ucalgary.ca> wrote:
A century ago, careful English speakers would pronounce ``whee'' as ``hwee'' with a noticeable aitch. Someone mentioned this in connexion with ``some American dialects''. I suspect that, down the years, the aitch has largely disappeared. Ditto for (almost?) all `wh' words? R.
On Fri, 18 Sep 2015, Dan Asimov wrote:
What about we, wee, whee, all the way home?
—Dan
On Sep 18, 2015, at 10:22 AM, Mike Speciner <ms@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
What about we, whee ?
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