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

Merhaba!

And wrote:

"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/
(ergo I myself am no longer Young). That's word-initial /lj/; I haven't tried
asking people how they say 'curlew'."

Don't some British people say [&ljumInI@m] for 'aluminum'? And what about 'million', /mIlj@n/?

--Trebor

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