Verona_82
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I thought you might be interested in how this Singaporean native speaker pronounces "wh" and "w".
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Not in the northeast. I don't remember hearing it since I left the third grade (about 1949.)Not in England, but many people say it in the US. See Phonological history of wh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and also Voiceless labio-velar approximant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anyway, in my opinion the man pronounces "w" with a slight biliabial friction and "wh" without it. But it's only what I hear, not what I know.
Old English Dictionaryhwíl [] f (-e/-a) while, time; a long time; hour; nú ~e just now, a while ago; ealle ~e all the while; óðre ~e…óðre ~e at one time…at another time; adv ~e once; þá ~e (þe) while, whilst, meanwhile
I'm not sure how to read /ðh/ (with final /h/?), but /θ/ in /wɪθ/ ('with') is often unreleased, which makes it sound like /ð/.I don't want to make a new thread for my question so I'll ask it here:
I heard a "strange" pronunciation of the word with - /wɪðh/. It was pronounced by a native speaker. Is it ok?:shock:
YouTube - Craig Ferguson 5/28/10D Late Late show Shirley Manson
(5:01 for example, but she does it all the time)
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