Quoting Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...>:
> Stone Gordonssen wrote:
>
> > >I hope I'm not the only one that tried to figure out how [~=AmEranch]
> was
> > >supposed to be pronounced, and how the Australians could mangle the
> > >word 'station' so badly...
> >
> > Drat. You mean Aussies don't use a borrowed Aboriginal word which
> > begins with a nasalized centralized [A]?
>
> The tricky part is that [nch] ending. Alveolar nasal followed by
> palatal
> stop and ended with a glotal fricative...
If we interpret that "h" as loose transcription for aspiration (this is
explicitly acceptable according to the X-SAMPA document), it's no worse than
German words like "Amt".
Andreas