English accent
Some people, including several commentators of BBC, speak with an accent in which all the "wh" letter combination is pronounced as "h-w". e.g. why ( h-w-ai) Which kind of accent is it? And the intonation of this accent is also slightly different from RP.
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It's called speaking with a BBC accent which is also known as a very ' cultured' British accent.
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Some Americans from southern states also pronounce the "wh" as a "h-wai" sound
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I can't really say with certainty what kind of accent it is--you'd probably have to give a name for an example--but it is largely an archaic pronunciation reflecting the time when words in English were pronounced as they were spelled five hundred years ago. Of course, some people still will pronounce some occurrences (other than who or whole, or similar words) of the wh digraph as an aspirated w, and perhaps almost every native english speaker does so at least some of the time.
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