Perhaps an individual kink of mine; but I find the whole thing about words beginning with "w[h]", a bit problematic. My personal "take", based on my pronouncing abilities, is that in those circumstances, it's not easy to pronounce in a way which very readily / perceptibly distinguishes between "straight" w, and wh; unless one exaggerates the "wh" in a rather grotesque way; which to me, comes across as irritatingly "prissy and precious". A late uncle of mine -- mostly a delightful fellow -- was in my view, an annoying pronunciation-snob; one of the ways in which he manifested this, was to make a big performance of saying "HHwite", "HHweel", and so on. Dearly though I loved the old guy; when he did this, I wanted to punch him.