Daily Archives: Friday, 21 October 2011
Wait, who just died?
It’s been all over the news: the death of controversial, feared, despised, admired Libyan leader Mum…Muam…Moamm… Let’s just say M., shall we? Right then. Libyan leader M. Ghad…Quad…Kadh…Gahd… Crap. Just how the heck to you spell that guy’s name? According … Continue reading
Posted in Linguistics
Tagged Arabic, fricatives, phonetics, pronunciation, Quadhafi, spelling, velar stops, William Smalley
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