Re: y sound
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 18, 2003, 14:49 |
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Jan van Steenbergen scripsit:
> Well, Russian has things like "akanije", "okanije", "ikanije".
Oh yes, I had forgotten those.
> the habit to pronounce /s/ like [T] is called "lispelen".
English has this verb too: to lisp. Or to lithp, if you are being funny.
The modified [s] is not quite [T], though.
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