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2006-12-13 02:50:28 · 9 answers · asked by ? 6 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Well, besides the animal vs. country difference others have noted, and the fact that whales are IN the sea, while Wales is BY the sea, could you perhaps be referring to the fact that at one time the two were PRONOUNCED differently in many English dialects?
That is, before the "wine - whine" merger took place in MOST dialects, the latter began with the sound /hw/ (or something near it). But except for Scotland, Ireland (NOT Wales, I'm afraid), and certain parts of the Southern U.S., English speakers no longer make that distinction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_wh#Wine-whine_merger
(I *did* learn it, though I was long confused about it. Turns out my 7th grade reading teacher was from a community in Arkansas, I think, where they still distinguished such words as "weather" and "whether" and she worked on US, until we did too. Only years later did I find out she was just teaching us HER dialect, and the my original 'failure' to distinguish the two was perfectly fine.)
Speaking of Wales & whales, though -- a bit of timely trivia: This year marks the 50th anniversary of the John Huston film version of Moby Dick (adaptation written by Ray Bradbury)... whose sea scenes were largely filmed off the coast of WALES.
2006-12-13 13:42:50 · answer #1 · answered by bruhaha 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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This article is about the animal. For other uses, see Whale (disambiguation).
A Fin whaleThe term whale is ambiguous: it can refer to all cetaceans, to just the larger ones, or only to members of particular families within the order Cetacea. The last definition is the one followed here. Whales are those cetaceans which are neither dolphins (i.e. members of the families Delphinidae or Platanistoidea) nor porpoises. This can lead to some confusion because Orcas ("Killer Whales") and Pilot whales have "whale" in their name, but they are dolphins for the purpose of classification.
Wales (disambiguation)
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Look up Wales in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.Wales most commonly refers to the nation and principality in the United Kingdom.
2006-12-13 12:14:40 · answer #2 · answered by MR Stacy Robinson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whales is a species of mammals; Wales is a country in the United Kingdom.
2006-12-13 11:44:12 · answer #3 · answered by Mary W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whales are very large mammals that live in the ocean.
Wales is a country within the United Kingdom.
2006-12-13 17:02:31 · answer #4 · answered by Mooseles 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most obvious answer would be found in the fact of Whales has an 'h' and Wales does not.
Trick question...lol.
Here's one my dad gave me long ago:
What is 2 and 2?
Answer is 22, because the question was not what is 2 plus 2.
My answer to him was four. After he told me, I felt 4 musta been my IQ...lol
2006-12-13 11:03:05 · answer #5 · answered by ladyemberrose 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
guess u really want to distribute points. everyone knows that wales is a european country and whales are marine mammals
2006-12-13 11:05:21 · answer #6 · answered by Devilish_chic31 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wales is on land
and whales are in water
2006-12-13 10:54:26 · answer #7 · answered by music_lover 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ones a country and one is a animal
2006-12-13 10:52:10 · answer #8 · answered by IAN S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The second word lacks an "h".
2006-12-13 10:53:20 · answer #9 · answered by ronald 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋