Re: Morphems

David Peterson scripsit:

>     Well, I never knew that "tsk" was supposed to be that sound...  I thought
> they were saying "tsk" or "tIsk".  In writing, I use "ntch" to convey that
> sound because it sounds more like it.
The alveolar click as pity has two commonly used written representations,
"tsk" and "tut".  Both of these also have "spelling pronunciations",
[tIsk] and [tVt].

I don't know whether "Tcha(h)!", which appears to be negation/rejection,
is a click or not.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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        --Douglas Hofstadter

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