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What is it with the way they say "wh" words...like "what", "where" etc? Driving me crazy...

posted 2 years ago by Jehosaphet (1055)
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I can't stop myself from mocking it every time I hear it...how breathy they say these words is like Family Guy's Stewie saying Cool hhhwip.
Was this the way people talked back then? "Hhhwere it not for the hhwims of our companions, hhhwe'd be hhwell underhhway by now"

HHWHAT? I wish they'd stop with this, my girlfriend already finds me annoying without my continually mimicking these people every few minutes.
Anyone else notice this? Does it drive you as crazy as it does me?

[–] Mustang (5244) 2 years ago

There's a lot going on with this show. I noticed Elsa's accent can change at times too. She also always sounds different to her family. But sometimes she has an accent that is Germanic.

[–] triplea (3577) 2 years ago

Why are you watching this show?

[–] Jehosaphet (1055) 2 years ago

Lol because it took me awhile to give up on it. I think last night's episode did it though...
I thought this was some epic story about a cross-country danger-crusade through the rough...not some know-everything teenage girl's love life drama. Jesus this last episode was so bad.

[–] triplea (3577) 2 years ago

Ok yeah I think you've saved others from watching it too 👍

[–] trucker96 (15) 2 years ago

When she rode up and the old guy was looking at her like a piece of meat she says " Hhwat!, Hhwat? " Lol. I thought it was going to be a western not a CW teen drama. So yeah I agree.

[–] Karl Aksel (1451) 2 years ago

This can't be the first time you've heard that accent.

[–] Jehosaphet (1055) 2 years ago

Oh okay.

[–] kaykay1970 (1) 2 years ago

I have never heard it either and I live in Tennessee! Elsa and Thomas both have the woise accents. I don't know hhhwhere they loined to speak English. It sure as shooting wasn't the south.

[–] ATG6 (3000) 2 years ago

I just keep expecting Sam Elliot to offer everyone a Coors banquet beer when they're thirsty, or suggest taking a Dodge truck instead of them thar wagons, or maybe pack some Doritos in his saddle bags.

[–] redban (5226) 4 months ago

And if they didn’t talk that way, you’d complain about the lack of authenticity in their accent

[–] Jehosaphet (1055) 3 months ago

I don't know...if you'd read my post, you'd have read my asking whether or not this is the way people actually talked back then, so...I'm doubting it.

[–] Octo (213) a month ago

Cool hwhip.

[–] maximmm (3064) 9 days ago

I first stumbled upon this in an audiobook narration. I thought it was interesting, unique, but .... odd at the same time.
Immediately started googling, to see if this is perhaps some part of UK where peeps speak like that - you know, posh and all.

Google says - (from 2017) The “hw-” sound is the original correct sound for words like why, what, where, when and some other wh-words. This sound is quite significantly lost in the speech patterns in many parts of England but still existent in parts of Scotland, Wales and Ireland — as well as parts of North America.

A funny response to that - https://mindlesspeople.org/why-do-people-pronounce-wh-as-hw/