Re: rhotics

On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Keith Alasdair Mylchreest wrote:

> Well doesn't Allan say that Aristotle couldn't do a trilled /r/, so when
> asked his name he appeared to say "Alistotle" although he probably did
> the Southern English upside down [r] which his colleagues would assign to
> their /l/ phoneme.
>
> What I'm saying is that you're in good company.
Whatever I say for /r/ (and I think it's [R]) it's certainly not [l]
and can't be confused with it except by the Japanese :-)

   Irina

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