QOTD

[Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock]

I remember it trilled with the lips, but not the tongue. Does that count?


On Aug 19, 2014, at 4:22 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> "brr"
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> How old are you and where are you from, if you can remember when the -rr of
> "brr" was trilled, a la espanol?
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