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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!
OTOH, Welcome is NOT pronounced "Hwelcome," no matter how many folks tell you otherwise!
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Date: 2005-01-31 12:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-31 06:24 am (UTC)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?
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Date: 2005-01-31 06:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-31 07:32 am (UTC)I was going to ask the same thing.
Welcome
Date: 2005-01-31 07:46 am (UTC)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)no subject
Date: 2005-01-31 07:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-31 10:09 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2005-01-31 02:03 pm (UTC)You're weird.
:P