On Tue, 20 May 2003 13:52:09 -0400 John Cowan <jcowan@...>
writes:
> > In general, yes, but it seems odd when coming into English, in
> > which r/l
> > and s/S are phonemically distinct pairs (bar/ball, ass/ash).
> But there's no ts-/tS- opposition; tS- is all we've got, and we use
> it
> even in borrowings from Cantonese, which has only ts-. As for r/l,
> consider the strange case of "colonel", which is spelled like
> Italian and pronounced like French.
> --
> John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com
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