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

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Thursday, December 18, 2003, 19:33
Isidora Zamora wrote:

> My favorite is probably the Danish word "marmalade" for the way that it > shows off the intervocallic allophone of /d/ in the Danish > language. Sorry, no transcription available, because the sound is so > unusual that there isn't any standard (nor, prehaps, any non-standard) > transcription of it. > > Isidora >
Well, surely you must be able to describe it. How does one articulate it?

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Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>