304k subscribers in the kingofthehill community. Most people in the united states don't speak like this, but this used to be the way most english speakers used to speak. And i guess many dictionaries say /hwat/ as british and /wut/ as american.
Wine and whine used to sound different. What used to widely be spelled and pronounced as hwat. That means for any instance in which you see it used,.
(i even found a youtuber who said the. Was the hwat/hwy/hwere/hwen pronunciation the original pronunciation of the words, and the h sound only dropped at some point in the history of english? I found a few connotations of how the slang "peachy" The biggest thing to highlight is there can not be unanimous agreement on the appropriacy of any of these examples.
A subreddit for fans of mike judge's 1997 animated series king of the… If you're unhappy, it's usually best to be honest. Ask question asked 13 years, 3 months ago modified 5 years, 8 months ago As others have noted, w (h)ether you should pronounce wh as /w/ or /ʍ/ depends on what the prevailing regional accent does.
H is a relatively weak sound compared to other consonants, though, and it's not uncommon across other languages for it to be.