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Re: laterals (was: Pharingials, /l/ vs. /r/ in Southeast Asia)

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Saturday, February 14, 2004, 6:33
And Rosta wrote:


> I try not to read English pronunciation threads, because when I do, > I can seldom keep myself from participating...
Agreed! :-)
> lj, though, is a different story. As far as I can tell, it is > just disappearing over time, so that hardly anybody nowadays > would say /slju:/ for 'slew' (the noun, not the verb), while no > young person is likely to say 'lure' with a /lj/
How about "lewd" and "lurid"?? I had a friend at school who'd spent several years in British schools-- he got a terrible ribbing over here for saying [ljud], [ljUrId]

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