Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 14:42:07 -0500 From: Mark Mandel 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 320 Nevada St., Newton, MA 02160, USA : http://www.dragonsys.com/ Personal home page: http://world.std.com/~mam/