Do you pronounce the 'h' in words such as 'whip' and 'while' ?

[TheTecknician]

If you do, hwy ?

Seriously, this is something I've noticed in people's speech as I've got older. I'm fairly sure I was taught at school that the 'h' in these and other words was silent but maybe it's not necessarily so. Perhaps it's a matter of regional pronunciation or dialect.

Stevie Griffin says 'coolhwip' in Family Guy.

The hv- words were Norse. 'Viking'.

It’s called the wine-whine merger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_English_%E2%9F%A8wh%E2%9F%A9

I'm going to have to listen to some scottish accents really carefully, I'm here trying to make a w-h sound that doesn't sound like a child sounding out 2 unconnected letters and failing miserably! 😂

I'm also going to record myself and slow it down like @Gubbly said, in case I'm a secret w-h er and don't realise!

For any of you nerdy about these things, can I recommend "History of English Podcast" on Youtube - it's flipping fascinating, best to start from episode 1 though.

No, I've only ever known one person to pronounce the Hs in that scenario.

This person worked on wheat and so was giving a talk about wHeat. God that was a hilariously irritating talk..!

Here is more on wh-

https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/hw-

Oh I will go find that now

Patrick Stewart is from Yorkshire. I’ve never heard it pronounced in Yorkshire in fact they tend to drop as many letters as possible.

Scots has a separate linguistic development

Ok. Now I'm wondering. How do people who pronounce wine and whine the same pronounce who? I mean. They can't say oo are you?

I don't & I'm Irish. So wip & wile for me. But then I do pronounce water wader 😊

I'm Scottish and pronounce whine and wine the exact same. I'm beginning to doubt my own Scottish-ness reading this thread though 😂 I know what people mean when they talk about pronouncing the h but I don't think it's all Scottish people who do this... Also I would just say hoo for who if that makes sense?

He doesn’t usually use his Yorkshire accent any more though, he uses RP doesn’t he?

Hoo - like hoop without the p (now I'm second guessing how people who say pull and pool the same say hoop... 😬)

I'm Irish and therefore I pronounce it.

I think nearly everyone says hoo for who, irrespective of how they pronounce whine, which etc.

Although yes, some people who drop h's do say ooo. 'oo are ya?!' wasn't that an advert or a jingle or something?

Horse and hoarse are the same in my accent, but poor and pour are not. Pour rhymes with pore, poor rhymes with moor/ Coors (beer).

I'm from the US Deep South. I pronounce the 'h.'

The H goes before the W sound.
Hwere, hwine, hwy, hwether, etc.

Hwitch
Witch

Depends upon how pissed off I am.

If I'm happy, I probably don't do it all the time, but when I'm really, really angry, my Grandmother's voice comes out at roughly 3 Kelvin above Absolute Zero.

Quhen and quhere.

See, I get that, I don't do it but I'm familiar with it - but @Carryitjoyfully said

I had never noticed that I did but I do. The h sound is after the w though.

And all I can imagine is pronouncing who like 'wahoo' and that can't be right surely?!

Ooh.

Is that a wh sound? (I read the Wikipedia page but didn't quite follow the qu bit) or qu like queue or like quest?