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Re: Country names

From:Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...>
Date:Friday, May 9, 2003, 15:44
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... -- Carlos Th

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