Oink! (was: German (was Russian) letter names was Re: Words about)

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 21:52:06 -0500 John Cowan <jcowan@...>
writes:
> What's particularly interesting about "oink" is that unlike "arf"
> or "woof", it seriously offends English phonotactics.
> --
> John Cowan   jcowan@reutershealth.com  http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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How come?
And does that mean that "boink" also offends English phonotactics?


-Stephen (Steg)
 "oh living in captivity it's hard to know what's real;
  you can't take what they give you,
  but you get what you can steal.
  and half the world is cold and hard,
  but all the world's a stage;
  and this is my performance growing up inside a cage."
     ~ 'growing up inside a cage' by jason spitz

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