Re: USAGE: syllables

What a sound zoo! Clearly, the drift is "any voiceless sound plus l". But
you haven't included the one I'd feel most comfortable with, which is /xl/.
As for that old Welsh region Aberpump (sorry, Punjab) thanks for the
enlightenment! I've always thought it was /pundZA:b/. Probably the aberrant
version is due to the 'British soldier in India' syndrome.
Mike
> One would think that the nearest English approximation
> to [K] would be [Sl] and not [kl] or [fl] or [Tl],
> but then IME Norwegian speakers made Icelandic [K]
> into [Cl], while Swedes made it a mere [l] (and here
> one would think that the Icelandic spelling _hl_
> would help.
>
> Then there is of course the age-old ["p_hunjab] for
> [p@n"dZA:b] which grates me no end!
>
>
>
> /BP 8^)
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