Re: USAGE: syllables

Quoting BP Jonsson <bpj@...>:
> 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.
A (Swedish) friend of mine who was to Ireland insisted that the correct
pronunciation of "ll" was [xl].

                                                    Andreas