Re:Is that ship still stuck?
by kzrdude on Friday March 26, 2021 @06:49AM
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Thank you, it's also a time capsule preserving the "hw" pronunciation of whale. (Which seems to be slowly disappearing.)
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Weirdly my elementary-school-age kids were taught in kindergarten that "wh" is a separate sound from "w", and that the received pronunciation is "hw".
That's in Seattle, where al of nobody does the "hw" thing.
So that was a surprise to find in their little takehome pages. I'm guessing those handouts were first xerox'd 40 years ago...