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Re: RFC: Renaming 3B to Tezenki

From:Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>
Date:Sunday, January 14, 2007, 9:39
Henrik Theiling wrote:


| Eric Christopherson writes:
| > ... If so, would people whose first language is not
| > English perceive /kant/ and /kVnt/ to sound the same?
|
| E.g. Germans, most definitely yes.  /V/ is a strange sound to us
| sounding very much like our /a/ so many of us pronounce those two
| words identically.

The same is true for Russian and Ukrainian speakers. I still am not sure
about the precise quality of English /V/.

-- Yitzik

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