My Apologies about Mysterious sounds

Ben Poplawski wrote:
> For example, [T] is a rare sound but Greek has it.
People say this, and it's true that it's not just everywhere.
But I can think of half a dozen or more languages off the top of my
head that have it.  We should probably reserve the term "rare" to
sounds like glottalized interdental affricates, or some such.

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