On Oct 20, 2005, at 11:46 AM, John Howell wrote:
Yes, but interestingly enough not in the vowel, which is the same phoneme even though it is written differently, but in the consonants. "Loo-zer" and "Loo-ser." But in conversational speech such details are often passed over, just as unstressed vowels (in English) tend all to become schwas. There are many more varieties of dialectical American English than just broadcast standard. There was a discussion a while ago about the difference between, e.g., "woe" and "whoa," with me arguing that the latter requires a labial fricative sound before the first voiced sound and someone (Andrew?) arguing that that is no longer the case.
Like many matters of English phonetics, whether one pronounces "wh" distinct from "w" depends on one's regional accent.
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