Re: A question

bradandjen@imt.net writes:
>Its common enough in the northern part of Indiana where I used to
>live too.  My first phonetics class was taught by a newly arrived
>Dutch instructor who was as surprised to hear us using it as we were
>to learn that it was uncommon.
I never hear anyone here in Central or even Northern California
pronouncing the <wh> as <hw>. If you said it like that, you would seem to
be an outsider, or over-emphasizing your speech. For instance, we never
say "why" like "hwai", we say it like "wai".




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