Words beginning graduate students don't know

[Geoff Nathan]

I haven't looked it up, but isn't it something about a wooden cartwheel attached around somebody's neck? Mongolian or something... 

Geoff 

Geoffrey S. Nathan 
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> From: "Benjamin Barrett" <gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM>
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> Actually, I have a word that I would like to add: kàng. It's in the
> OED, and you get it wrong if you miss the tone mark (which the OED
> doesn't provide).

> Benjamin Barrett
> Seattle, WA

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> On Oct 10, 2013, at 3:30 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> >
> > Yes. Send cash for a list.
> >
> > JL
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Benjamin Barrett
> > <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:
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> >> I don't know what a palisade is, either, though I do know the
> >> pronunciation. Perhaps I got that wrong on the GMAT. Is there a
> >> litmus test
> >> of vocabulary people must know?
> >>
> >> Benjamin Barrett
> >> Seattle, WA
> >>
> >> Learn Ainu! https://sites.google.com/site/aynuitak1/videos
> >>
> >> On Oct 10, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Geoffrey Steven Nathan <
> >> geoffnathan at WAYNE.EDU> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm giving a mid-term in phonetics, and have asked students to
> >> transcribe some words. So far, here are words that at least five
> >> students
> >> (out of 63, almost all native speakers of American or Canadian
> >> English )
> >> don't know:
> >>>
> >>> choral
> >>> palisade
> >>>
> >>> sigh....

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