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From: "Donna S. Boyd" <>
Subject: [NYALBANY] Re: Emmerich & like pronunciations
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 23:23:24 -0400
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I believe, Cliff and Bill, that the way the mouth and throat form the German -ch sound is referred
to by linguists as a "glottal stop." There aren't any English sounds that haven't come in from
other languages that have that same sound, as far as I know. It probably would be explained in a
German-to-English/English-to-German dictionary or grammar book, don't you think? You know, I think
this is the most intellectual list to which I subscribe! 8-)

Donna in Va.


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