Friends:
To my response to Andre Levin's statement
>There are no English pronunciation rules that I know of that treat
> the reversal of the letter sounds as correct in any case.
in which I wrote
>"Wh" in what, where, which, white, when, and why: pronounced "hwat",
>"hwere", "hwich", "hwite", "hwen", and hwy respectively.
Phil Daley wrote:
I'd be curious to know what region of the US they do that in. I have
never heard it.
I've never heard a speaker I can identify from any part of the U.S.,
either in person, or via broadcast media, say
pronounce the "w" and "h" in their proper order, that is to say "w-hich"
or "w-hen", and while I have heard the name of the letter next before Z
in customary alphabetical order in English pronounced as "wye", I have
never heard "why" pronounced that way. Further, consulting my
dictionary, the pronunciation for every word beginning with the "wh"
dyad is specifiec as "hw", as in these examples
<http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/which;_ylt=AnHj3K8fJ7VBKydHKrV2X.KsgMMF>
<http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/where;_ylt=AuamstMmB174YRd95LPVqCWsgMMF>
<http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/wheeze>
<http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/whatchamacallit;_ylt=AiNx9_yspXF6I4akcyvVsjWsgMMF>
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