Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 18:15:26 -0500

From: Beverly Flanigan FLANIGAN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU

Subject: Re: whore



Minnesotans, and other North Central folk, I believe, say [hor], as do

most Ohioans, as far as I can tell. I've never heard [hur], with one

or two syllables. BTW, we "standard" speakers from Minnesota would

never use /hw/ for 'wh.'



The best/worst hypercorrection I've heard of the /hw/ came from Dan

Rather in commenting on Diana, Princess of /hw/ales--twice!