Re: Country names

 --- Peter Bleackley skrzypszy:

> >>The one-l lama, he's a priest,
> >>The two-l llama, he's a beast,
> >>And I will bet a silk pyjama
> >>There isn't any three-l lllama.
> >
> >Hm, well if one-l lamas are pronounced with a /l/, and two-l llamas are
> >pronounced with a /j/, what're three-l lllamas? /lja:m@/? :)
>
> Interesting. Is there any way of dismabiguating it from [jla:m&] ?
>
> Or what if it's Wellsh?
/Ka:m@/?
But I guess Welsh would write it four-l: "llllama". Ask somebody else about the
pronunciation. Probably like somebody who is too drunk to say /lama/ and gets
stuck on the /l/. ;))

Wenedyk, BTW, would write "l\ama" (with l-stroke), which is pronounced /wama/.

Jan

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