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- noun phonology A merger in which
ʍ (the sound heard at the beginning of the wordwhine in a Scottish accent or several accents in the United States) becomesw (the sound heard at the beginning of the wordwine ); in accents where this merger occurs,whine andwine arehomophones .
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