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[Mark A. Mandel]

Jim Landau suggests:
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When discussing the sound represented by the Cyrillic letter "X", why don't
you simply call it a "guttural"?
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"Guttural" means 'of/in the throat', and is widely (mis)used by nonlinguists
to describe any vocal sound considered rough or savage, including some that
are not "in the throat" at all. Why not accurately call it a voiceless velar
fricative?

-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian,
   Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody
   a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel