How to pronounce PAU FERRO..?

[Danley]

In Brazilian Portuguese "R" is pronounced with a tongue roll most of the times. But "RR" most definitely sounds like an H, as if you're sighing. I'd say the "rr" sound is very similar to the sound of "wh" in the word "Whore"

I understand some east coast US English speakers differentiate the written ‘wh’ sound when it’s used in words like ‘whip,’ (but I’m not really sure how, and it seems less than subtle when people try to demonstrate it to me, and I have no clue how to make that sound myself - it’s just pronounced straight-up ‘w’ in Midwest/west coast English, ‘wip.’)

On the other hand, I don’t think any US English speakers (or west coast anyway) would pronounce the ‘wh’ in ‘whore’ different than the ‘h’ in ‘hear.’ ‘Whore’ and ‘hoar’ have the same pronunciation to me.

Further, that’s a pretty difficult sound for an English speaker to make after any vowel - particularly the ‘e’ sound. Few words have the ‘h’ sound in the middle, and usually when we see it it’s a foreign word our tongues trip all over. It nearly caused physical pain for me to try, and typically English speakers would try to blunt that sound by replacing with a ‘y’ sound (imagine an American with a bad accent pronouncing the German ‘sehen’ as ‘saiyan’) or a pause beforehand.

[aliendawg]

Oh for sure!! And I never realized how many other English words have a somewhat similar sound to the one in "Ferro". That's interesting

[nanamour]

In Brazilian Portuguese "R" is pronounced with a tongue roll most of the times. But "RR" most definitely sounds like an H, as if you're sighing. I'd say the "rr" sound is very similar to the sound of "wh" in the word "Whore"

I understand some east coast US English speakers differentiate the written ‘wh’ sound when it’s used in words like ‘whip,’ (but I’m not really sure how, and it seems less than subtle when people try to demonstrate it to me, and I have no clue how to make that sound myself - it’s just pronounced straight-up ‘w’ in Midwest/west coast English, ‘wip.’)

Around here, many people would pronounce 'whip' more like 'hhwhip,' but it's often quite subtle...interestingly enough, words beginning with a plain 'w' can also get the drawn out h treatment and end up sounding more like 'hhwater.'

[mackerelmint]

I tend to pronounce the H in "whip". I also pronounce "whore" as HOOR, because that's the only way to say it.

[Nevets]

They should have just called them "Ironwood Fretboards" (way cooler) and avoided all this mispronunciation mess.