Is the H silent in whale?
The “wh” in English used to be pronounced as “hw”. So “whale” used to be pronounced “hwale”. It comes from Anglo-Saxon. Some people still do pronounce them as “hwale” (whale), “hwite” (white) but I think they are now archaic.
How do we pronounce whale?
Are well and whale pronounced the same?
The words wail, wale, whale sound the same but have different meanings and spellings.