'tz'? -----Original Message----- From: pas@xxxxxxxx To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 9:36 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Softies At 10:29 AM 8/28/2006, you wrote: >Perhaps it's a little like the "veit" and "beit" in Hebrew? Or the subtle >>difference in the way Latin Americans and Spaniards say "veces"? When linguists speak of a hard or soft sound, they are usually (for English) talking about C and G, and sometimes J -- although I'm not sure there are any soft js in non-filched English words. But there are only a certain number of 'sounds' and a soft 'c' is just an 's', a soft 'g' is a 'j' and a soft 'j' is a 'y'. I can't think of what a soft 't' would be. The closest I can think is when it is used as a 'sh' sound as in 'libation'. But that's a totally different sound that is almost completely dependent on the "io" following. Paul ########## Paul Stone pas@xxxxxxxx Kingsville, ON, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ________________________________________________________________________ Check out AOL.com today. Breaking news, video search, pictures, email and IM. All on demand. Always Free.