Re: How to Make Chicken Cacciatore (was: phonetics by guesswork)

Quoting Tristan Mc Leay <kesuari@...>:

> Not only that, but last I checked, French doesn't have a /x/ phoneme. Of
> course, I don't know anything about French and the phoneme that ought to
> be spelt <ghqcwh> (/R/) may be devoiced in some contexts, but that
> phoneme is still relatively new to French, and anyway, [X] is no closer
> to [x] than [k] is (a German might---couldn't say for certain, totally
> conjecture---think you're saying Barr or Back instead of Bach).
This happens to be unlikely; [X] is a common realization of German /x/ - common
enough that some books list the phoneme as /X/. In German, pronouncing "Bach"
as [bak] is wrong, as [baX] perfectly normal.

                                               Andreas

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