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.

If there is "A way to pronouncs words", which accent does it use - RP?
If so presumably everybody with a regional accent is wrong 🙄.

There's an Emmerdale actress who pronounces "family" as "famleh". I wouldn't say that's wrong, just different.

It would be boring if everyone in the UK spoke the same.

If you're confusing accent with non standard English then I agree with you.

If you're trying to suggest that one accent is more correct than any others, then I disagree.

Pour and pore are the same for me too.They rhyme with four and door.

But poor is different - rhymes with moor. It's almost 2 syllables - 'poo-ur'.

And paw is different again - rhymes with law.

I can't get my head around how to make them all sound the same.

Yes - it's a voiceless labial-velar fricative.

This is a great way to explain it - I'd never realised you can feel where, which etc on your hand but not wear, witch. Agree that in Scotland wh is taught in same way as other consonant digraphs (sh, ch, th etc).

It's mad. We learn this stuff seamlessly as children. But the theory of it is so complicated, I don't even understand one word of this. Well, labial, something to do with lips?

I can only make poor, pour, pore and paw sound the same if I put on a faux English accent.

To me - pore and pour are the same
Poor = poo-er
Paw rhymes with law.

Some of these differences are going to be a question of whether a person is a rhotic or non-rhotic speaker, or in other words, what the speaker does with those r sounds.

I have read them, that’s why I’m questioning it. Clearly because in my experience, I don’t recognise that to be the case. There are many Scottish accents, all quite different.

Perhaps don’t be quite so rude when there’s no need?

The one that does annoy me is buk instead of boook. I’ve noticed Americans and south English saying it -don’t know about the rest of the country but it’s boook in Scotland.

You mean like Stewie Griffin and "Kewl Hwhip"?

I only discovered that I have an incomplete wine/whine merger (I pronounce them differently) when playing a game of Settlers of Catan and trying to trade wheat (hweat) with other players :)

I have an English accent but Scottish heritage (parents had Scottish accents) so I probably picked it up from them but didn't lose it, despite losing my Scottish accent at school.

Jo

Whil Wheaton

In some parts of Britain it indicates whether you are catholic or protestant. It will be interesting to see if it fades now there are fewer Irish nuns in RC schools.

Only had to read the thread title for Stewie to pop unbidden into my head!

It’s not hard. Make as if you are blowing out birthday candles and without stopping blowing say “witch” or “weather” which will now be pronounced “which” or “whether”.

I pronounce the Y in Tuesday and the D in Wednesday.

In my accent there is no difference between “horse” and “hoarse”. Both have rhotic Rs pronounced.

I thought it was a Protestant/Catholic thing?

I don’t pronounce the word “book” as either “buk” or “boook”.

In NI yes.

In Ireland no.

It's really just jargon that helps linguists communicate exactly what sounds they're hearing without casting around for rhymes. As seen on this and countless other threads, the pesky non-rhotic R makes this exercise farcical.

Basically, the velum is the back of the roof of the mouth and labial does refer to the lips.
The back of the tongue is raised slightly toward the velum and the HW sound is made by breath being forced between rounded lips (this is the fricative part).
Voiceless means no vibration is felt in the larynx when a sound is made. WH (hw) is a sound that doesn't involve vibration.

You can experiment with different vowel, consonant, and diphthong sounds to check whether voiced or voiceless by feeling your throat as you make the sounds.

I’m so confused, I’m Scottish and I don’t think i pronounce it, and I wouldn’t even know how!

which and which, whine and wine sound exactly the same to me

can anybody explain the difference?

I’m from Glasgow and I’m not getting this at all.

To me, whip sounds the same as wip.

The w sound in wee just sounds the as the w sound in while.

Does anybody have an example of a Scottish person speaking i could listen to to try and hear the difference?

I can’t hear any difference between which and witch. I’m Scottish.

im totally confused.