Re: USAGE: syllables

I've never heard /h/ used for /K/, even by BBC newsreaders. And I agree
about the sound - what's so hard about it? I read in a book once (not
linguistic, to be fair) that "Welsh is well standardised, but impossible for
anyone of non-Cymric breeding to pronounce." Dafadfaw!!
Mike

> >
> > I thought it was generally borrowed as /h/? Or at least, I thought in
> > words that came from Spanish, <ll> is 'supposed' to be pronounced with
> > /j/ and in words from Welsh, <ll> is 'supposed' to be /h/.
>
> [h&nEhi] for Llanelli?  I don't think so.  I don't see why English people
> find it so hard to pronounce [K].  It's a pretty easy sound, really.
>
> > --
> > Tristan.
> >

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