>From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
>>> In an English context, my brain would probably hear [kat] as "gut" ...
>>>
>>
>>But I do pronounce the [V] without a problem! I never had problems to
>be
>>understood, so I guess with the context of my whole pronunciation people
>just
>>unconsciously adjust their "phoneme map" to my realisations :)) .
>
>Well, in English anyway you can do a lot of bending. Someone posted that
>story
>of "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" as an example:
>
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/ladle/