Re: "A" or "An" With Dropped H's?

"R H Draney" <dadoctah@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Tighe wrote:

Is there a difference between the American and the British
pronunciation of words starting "hu-"?
In British English, the /hj/ sound is virtually indistinguishable from
the sound represented by "ch" in German in words like "ich" (/c/ with a
cedilla). Some speakers seem to be going even further down this path
and saying "shuge" for "huge".

It was only recently that I realized this. Before that I was baffled
by instructions on pronouncing German that said the ich-Laut was like
the "h" in "huge".

For this American speaker, "huge" is still /hjudZ/, but that /h/ is well
on its
way to becoming /c/...check back with me in another ten years....

Palatization of /h/ before high front vowels? Happened in Mandarin Chinese
during the Ching Dynasty.


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