Thread: Awkward words
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Old 07-15-2016, 04:53 PM
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bearisgray
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I just checked two dictionaries -

"white" is pronounced with or without the "h"

sources: "Encarta World English Dictionary" - copyright 1999
"Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, Second College Edition" - (most recent) copyright 1986

It would be more logical if those wh words were spelled hwile, hwat, hwen, hwo, hwere.
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