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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sancho" data-source="post: 1385346" data-attributes="member: 27039"><p>I´m with you on this one, David. There are three, yes three, initial sounds being debated.../w/, /h/, and /wh/.  The last is how it´s spelled (spelt?) and how it´s pronounced insofar as I´ve ever heard here. But there are varieties of English accent, curiously closest to "Standard" SE-England English, that seem to always substitute the first or second sound for the third. No idea why. Surely one "woos" a lady, jumps through "hoops", and hears the "whoosh" of a passing train.....and all three words have different initial sounds? SE-England folk...try pursing your lips as if to kiss, leaving them slightly open. Then vibrate your vocal chords and blow gently at the same time....there you go! You can do it! Now say "-ooper" at the end, and By Jove, You´ve Got It! "Whooper"!!! Well done.:t:</p></blockquote><p></p>