Re: Mutable R's

Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> It's one of those language myths like the one that says that Inuit has
> 100
> words for "snow" or that the Czech r-caret is the most difficult sound
> of the
> world (myth carried on by the Guiness book of records even today). Mind
> you, I
> could pronounce a Czech r-caret even before I learned to distinguish [i]
> and
> [I]! :)))
What is Czech r-caret? I've never seen any descent description of it ... my
unhelpful encyclopaedia's pronunciation guides of Czech names makes is [rS],
which I find slightly difficult to believe, and looking up the article on Czech,
it says simultaneous [r] and [Z], which ought to be impossible.

                                                       Andreas

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