1. Introduces two alternatives
   "it will take ages whether you drive or fly" 
2. Expresses a doubt or question
   "I wondered whether you were going to the party?"

Sounds like: weather, wether

• northern oak fern
• northern oriole
• northern parula
• northern phalarope
• northern pike
• northern pin oak
• northern pitch pine
• northern pocket gopher
• northern porgy
• northern red oak
• Northern Rhodesia
• northern scup
• northern sea robin
• northern shrike
• northern snakehead
• Northern snow bedstraw
• Northern Spy
• northern storm petrel
• Northern Territory
• northern white cedar
• northern whiting
• northern woodsia
• Northerner
• northernmost
• northernness