Re: y sound

From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>

> I love these Spanish words: yeismo/lleismo, ceceo/seseo, tuteo/voseo,
> leismo/loismo, ....  Does any other language have anything like them?
Hungarian had to have a stage where some pronounced the old palatal lateral,
<ly>, as [L] instead of [j]. But I think everybody uses [j] now. There's
also the issue of two short <e>'s: /E/ and /{/ -- there's no distinction in
Budapest, but a good four-fifths of the nation has it.

The opposite situation for Polish <l-stroke>: most pronouce it [w] but some
still say [5] like they do in Russia.