What?

Jan. 31st, 2005 03:35 am
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Most words that start with the letters "wh" are pronounced "hw," as in "hweel." Not "weel."

OTOH, Welcome is NOT pronounced "Hwelcome," no matter how many folks tell you otherwise!

Date: 2005-01-31 12:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ratesjul.livejournal.com
Is this Bostonion, or something?

Date: 2005-01-31 06:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] star-wizard.livejournal.com
I think he means that saying "hw" gives the breathier sound. I was always told to "say the 'h'".

My father makes jokes when you say "you know what?" If you say wat, rather than hwat (as Josh is spelling it), he says "yes, his name is on every lightbulb" (Watt).

Welcome has no h. Why *would* you say it with one?

Date: 2005-01-31 06:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] star-wizard.livejournal.com
This specific pronunciation was always more important to my mother than my father. I don't know if this is because she was brought up in Oklahoma, or because she was brought up in a very proper, upper class family.

Date: 2005-01-31 07:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hillary-annette.livejournal.com
"Welcome has no h. Why *would* you say it with one?"

I was going to ask the same thing.

Welcome

Date: 2005-01-31 07:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] joshwriting.livejournal.com
I have no idea hwy one would say "Hwelcome."

I just know that Hwen folks are adopting airs, they of-ten do add the h to 'welcome!'

not bostonian

Date: 2005-01-31 06:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flawed-creation.livejournal.com
my relatives in Texas pronounce "wh" as "hw", but "welcome" doesn't have an "h" in it anyway.

Date: 2005-01-31 07:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragongstone.livejournal.com
The exception to that being "who".

Date: 2005-01-31 10:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyhoshi.livejournal.com
i hever realized the wh issue.
i say it should become a basis for a political platform.
i pronounce it as close to how it is spelt as possible
like the germans.

Date: 2005-01-31 02:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] camlina.livejournal.com
(smile)
You're weird.

:P

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