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12 October 2012 at 10:23pm | IP Logged

John Wells again, this time on Danish:

John Wells on Danish

Short article, but a lot of "meat" in the comments.

This one may be of interest to those who have taken part in final "d" discussions here:

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Thomas Widmann5 November 2010 19:03

@Anonymous, to a Dane, the /l/ in English 'full' sounds completely different from a Danish /ð/. However, I tried to get my (Scottish) wife to pronounce /l/ and then lower the tip of her tongue, and it suddenly sounded exactly like Danish /ð/, so the position of the tip of the tongue is of great importance.

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