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Re: Poll: What looks best?

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Friday, July 6, 2007, 17:33
Coming in late to this---

Taliesin wrote:
>>The quest to replace H continueth! Here's a test-sentence: >
(snip)
>> >>The letter in question marks a sound that starts off as a velar >>trill (or one of its many raspy replacements) and turns into an >>alveolar trill. It is always long/cannot be geminated and is the >>raspiest, spittiest sound in the entire language. (Incidentally, >>the test-sentence contains every single word using the letter H >>that I could find in the seconds I spent searching, that >>sentence is almost a tongue-twister...) Replace mentally with >>[kr] if the backs of your tongues do twist!
How about _gamma_? or gamma+r? or _gr_ if that cluster doesn't occur otherwise?