Re: Woody or tinny?

Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:

>Generally, English manages to produce a few really ugly words with bad /r/
>combinations. My most hated word sequence, which I unfortunately have to
>use sometimes, is "word order". I usually paraphrase to "order of words",
>though that's only a tad better.
>
And of course, some of us find our /w3:d O:d@/s much nicer than our
/O:d@ rQv w3:dz/s. And I also find /r/-combs ugly. Aren't I glad I'm
non-rhotic?

>I agree with Björn that "genre" is a sucker of a word. Usually I have to
>say it twice for people to understand, especially non-native speakers,
>because it sounds like a word from an entirely different language, I think,
>(which is of course the case, in a sense - it's a recently borrowed French
>word which hasn't been digested well enough).
>
I have nothing against /ZQnr@/, but before vowels, when it comes out as
/ZQnr@r/... {shudders}