Return of the minimal pairs

[Muke Tever]

From: "Robert Whiting" <whiting at cc.helsinki.fi>
> And no English speaker who doesn't speak Arabic would ever pronounce
> 'dhal' with [D] unless he looked it up in the dictionary.  It would
> simply be pronounced with [d] because that is how English <dh> in
> initial position is reallized.

That, by the way, is a rule I was never taught.  I always had the spelling
pronunciation [D] for <dh> words before I learned about Sanskrit.  (It took
me a while to link [dArm@] with <dharma>...)  Even now I still have
dental/interdental [d] in those words (instead of the regular alveolar or
whatever), and in words like <dhole>, the [D] still persists.