Re: USAGE: syllables

JS Bangs scripsit:

> I don't know what it was, though, since all of the related
> languages that I know of have *l reflexed as plain ol' /l/.
Retroflex [d] would be a logical candidate: it is a stop, it would be
isolated in OY, and the reverse transformation is known to have happened
in natlangs, e.g. Latin ll > Sardinian d.d.

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Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos          --Lithuanian proverb
Deus dedit dentes; deus dabit panem             --Latin version thereof
Deity donated dentition;
  deity'll donate doughnuts                     --English version by Muke Tever
God gave gums; God'll give granary              --Version by Mat McVeagh