On Jul 7, 2005, at 1:08 PM, John Howell wrote:
"Which," "whoa," and other "wh" words like "where" properly start with a phoneme produced by a puff of air blown through pursed lips. "Witch," and "woe" and "ware" do not. The pronunciation is often confused by young children, rap artists, and some speakers of dialectal English.
In Broadcast Standard American, w and wh are pronounced identically, and the phoneme [hw] simply does not exist.
Even in British RP [hw] is not universal. Gilbert and Sullivan's "Never mind the why and wherefore" is almost unsingable if you insist on rendering the Hs, and I know of no recording in which that is done.
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