Words beginning graduate students don't know

[Benjamin Barrett]

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

Learn Ainu! https://sites.google.com/site/aynuitak1/videos

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

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> Yes. Send cash for a list.
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> JL
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>
> 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:
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>>> 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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