[Tlhingan-hol] Canon: Associate Producer

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Sat Oct 3 13:34:47 PDT 2015


On 10/3/2015 9:29 AM, lojmIt tI'wI' nuv wrote:
> My wife pronounces "where" and "wear" exactly alike and thinks my
> pronunciation of "where" is sufficiently alien to her to be no end of
> amusement. She pronounces "why" like the letter "Y". It leaves me
> wondering why she doesn't pronounce "who" as "woo". When I point that
> out, she becomes puzzled. She never thought about that until I
> pointed it out, then she just declares "That's just how it is," and
> avoids thinking about it further, since she prefers to think that her
> pronunciation is generally better than mine, when there is a
> difference.

Your wife's pronunciation is by far the more common these days. Think of 
the Family Guy sketch in which Stewie says "Cool WHip" over and over and 
Brian demands to know why he's "placing so much emphasis on the h." (And 
then remember the sketch about WHil WHeaton.)

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