Re: What's your favorite sounding word in any language?

Quoting "M. Astrand" <ysimiss@...>:

> >Date:         Sun, 21 Dec 2003 00:13:57 +0100
> >From: Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
> >Subject:      Re: What's your favorite sounding word in any language?
> >
> >Quoting "M. Astrand" <ysimiss@...>:
> >
> >> My other favorites include, for example, the Swedish words _odjur_
> "monster"
> >> (literally "unanimal", which I also think is very clever) and _skymf_
> >> "insult".
> >
> >I just realized I pronounce that [xYmp\] ... and I was thinking of [p\]
> as
> >a
> >foreign sound!
>
> [mp\], not [Ff]? Swedish is even more exotic than I thought.
The difference 'tween [mp\] and [Ff] would be subphonemic for me, so I
certainly cannot exclude that other Swedes, perhaps a majority, use [Ff]. I've
never reflected about the exact pronunciation of this cluster before, that I
can recall, but I might try and pay attention to how others pronounce it when
I go back for Xmas (train leaves in 3h!).

                                                           Andreas