Re: USAGE: syllables
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 15, 2003, 17:06 |
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From: "Tristan" <kesuari@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: USAGE: Re: syllables
> On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 19:36, BP Jonsson wrote:
> > One would think that the nearest English approximation
> > to [K] would be [Sl] and not [kl] or [fl] or [Tl],
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> 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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