Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 14:42:07 -0500

From: Mark Mandel Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM

Subject: "wh"



I'll always remember in the mid 60s seeing a graffito in NYC, around

104th St. and Broadway:



YOUR MOTHER IS A HUWA



That puzzled me for a very long time, till I finally "heard" it mentally with

the appropriate accent and intonation to match something I had actually

heard.



Mark A. Mandel : Senior Linguist : mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dragonsys.com

Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200

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