Re: final editing pass

On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 23:19:32 GMT, Sea Wasp
<seawaspobvious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:43B9B50B.6080509@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in
rec.arts.sf.composition:

> nyra wrote:

[...]

>> Could someone fill me in on what the difference between [w] and [wh]
>> is? As someone who only writes and almost never speaks english, i can
>> only say that i wouldn't pronounce the two as homophones: because the
>> latter inevitably turns into 'vitsh'.

> Obviously a slight "h" sound after the "W". Exaggerated, it means
> you'd be saying W-here, W-hen, for where and when, etc.

You're being misled by the spelling: if that realization
occurs at all, it's very unusual. For some speakers it's a
slight [h] sound *before* the [w], and indeed <hw> is an
older spelling than <wh>. For others it's simply a
voiceless [w]. The only other realization that I can recall
having heard from a native speaker is [xw] (informally
\khw\), an exaggeration of [hw].

Brian

Brian
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