Re: Borrowing a word

Mark J. Reed scripsit:

> The same way anything else is labialized-  by rounding the lips.
> The teeth don't round to match, obviously, and make less contact than
> they do otherwise, but you can definitely still make a [f] sound.
When my father (a first generation Irish-American, born in 1904) was being
particularly silly, he would say in mocking tones "/&n'f_wVtIz'pT&t/?"

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John Cowan                                <jcowan@...>
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Yakka foob mog.  Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork.  Chumble spuzz.
    -- Calvin, giving Newton's First Law "in his own words"

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