Thank you, all those readers who have stayed with me over the seven years that I have been writing it. And if I have nothing new to say, then the best plan is to stop talking. …In fact over recent months I have increasingly been feeling that in this blog I have by now already said everything of interest that I want to say. Unfortunately in some fonts the currently official IPA symbol for this sound looks indistinguishable from a lower-case L.įor further discussion, together with a number of sensible readers' comments, see my blog for. ![]() ![]() How come, you might ask, that a word spelled with -c- comes to be pronounced with an l? Why this gross discrepancy between spelling and sound, orthography and pronunciation?īlame the 1989 Kiel Convention of the IPA, which replaced the click symbols then in use, ʇ ʗ ʖ, by the current ǀ ǃ ǁ.īecause the second syllable of this word is pronounced in Zulu with a voiceless dental click.
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