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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: the great vowel shift, the dawn of the printing, & the etymologizing of spelling zmjezhd #190898 05/05/10 04:29 PM Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 95 Long Island, NY USA kah454 journeyman kah454 journeyman Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 95 Long Island, NY USA I too pronounce the "H" in words such as "whether" (by pronunciation distinguished from "weather")and I was born and raised in New York. I don't get a lot of comments about this. There are many New Yorkers who don't speak in "Brooklynese" and realize that "Long Island" are two words not one. 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