Re: USAGE: syllables

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>Sphinx isn't foreign; it's been an English word since at least Shakespeare.
>Neither sphincter or sphagnum strike me as particularly foreign, either.

The really odd word is Dvorak.  It is the only word in the language which
begins with dv or anything remotely like it, but it has never felt
particularly foreign to me, and nor have I noticed much difficulty
pronouncing it from English speakers (even those that find intitial ts
difficult).

(Mind, what's even more peculiar is that I pronounce the r-hacek as nothing
else in the language (although doubtless far from correctly) and still is
doesn't seem foreign to me.  Oh well...)

Ian