Comments on: Pronouncing Words that Begin with WH

By: Tony Hearn

Tony Hearn — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:45:53 +0000

Don’t start me on the common error ‘pronOUnciation’ for ‘pronunciation’! As to ‘wh-’, I as English am used to noticing Americans and Scots pronouncing the aspirate, but among Englanders you would be though t rather posh these days to make a point of doing so. My parents’ generation, born in the twenties, were the last to do so as a general rule, and I suspect that even then many here did not. Add to which the more general question of dropping the aspirate altogether, which is an increasing feature of much casual spoken English here in England. Anyone noticed it elsewhere?

By: Djelloul

Djelloul — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:33:19 +0000

Help me. I am a teacher but I need to learn English ( Pronouciation) Thanks

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:22:49 +0000

And in some parts of Scotland, “wh” is pronounced “f”…!

By: Karla

Karla — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:06:56 +0000

It must be a British thing. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone in anywhere I’ve been in the US (Midwest, Northwest, New England, East coast, West coast, Florida, Georgia, Texas…) pronounce “the breathy hw” sound. Whale, whinny, whine, while, whether (and weather), whisper, whistle, whiskers, whiskey, whey, whittle, and white, all have the same /w/ sound.

By: dhairaz

dhairaz — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:46:55 +0000

My country, English is secondary language. Those days when I was schooling, my teacher has stress on “pronouncation” especially on difficult word. Until now I am still learning “pronouncation”.