Dialect-clash

[Laurence Horn]

On May 23, 2012, at 6:39 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> "List of 25 sounds saved by Library of Congress"
>
> When I saw this headline in the local broadsheet about "sounds," I had
> no idea that the reference was literally to *sounds*! I thought that
> the article was going to be about *sounds*!
>
> Youneverknow.
>
> http://timesleader.com/detail.html?sub_id=154364
> --
Yup, where where they when the apico-pharyngeal trill became extinct?  (That's the sound one makes in swallowing one's tongue.)

LH

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