wails, whales Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 18, 2015, at 2:15 PM, Wouter Meeussen <wouter.meeussen@telenet.be> wrote:
I’m looking for couples of english words starting with ‘w’ that are pronounced in the same way, even written the same, but: the first is like “wh*” and the other “w*”. Bad examples: “were” and “where” do not qualify because the first “e” is pronounced differently “witch” and “which” do not qualify because of the extraneous “t”
Motivation:
in norther parts of England, the “wh” seems to be pronounced as “chw”, in a way similar to swedish “sj” or “sk”. That would mean that such pronounciation is the original one, and current BBC-english pronounciation is a ‘degradation’.
Any perfect examples?
I know this is not math, but some on this mailing list like word games and language fun too. (hé Bill?)
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