At 01:08 PM 7/7/05 -0400, John Howell wrote: >Poor example, I'm afraid, and one that suggests you are not a singer. >"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.
...and American English dictionaries that abandoned the hw-only rule a generation ago. Hw- is disappearing. My generation still uses it, but it's been years since I've heard anyone under 40 (who isn't in radio, anyway) actually use the hw- sound. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
