Try Saying the Alphabet...

[nq:1]Try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or your tongue. Every letter will sound exactly the same. - from the American Language section of www.odd-info.com[/nq]
The web site appears grossly misinformed. The letters K and N can be spoken without moving the lips or tongue and sound quite different.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

[nq:2]Try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or ... the same. - from the American Language section of www.odd-info.com[/nq]
[nq:1]The web site appears grossly misinformed. The letters K and N can be spoken without moving the lips or tongue and sound quite different.[/nq]
As I say it, "n" requires quite a bit of tongue movement. Unless you mean a silent "n".

John

[nq:2]The web site appears grossly misinformed. The letters K and N can be spoken without moving the lips or tongue and sound quite different.[/nq]
[nq:1]As I say it, "n" requires quite a bit of tongue movement. Unless you mean a silent "n".[/nq]
K and N both require tongue movement. Just different parts of the tongue.

Ray
UK

Try walking without moving your legs. You won't be able to do that, either.

DC

javawizard filted:
[nq:1]Try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or your tongue. Every letter will sound exactly the same. - from the American Language section of www.odd-info.com[/nq]
Amazing!...the B in "debt" sounds just like the C in "indict", the D in "handsome", the G in "gnome" and the S in "viscount"..r

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[nq:1]javawizard filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]Try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or ... the same. - from the American Language section of www.odd-info.com[/nq]
That's not true, but not for the reasons others have given. Your insturctions were to try to say something without moving my lips or tongue. I did this, but the letters didn't all sound alike. That's because I tried and I failed

Native speakers of English don't, unless dictating to children. In the same way they don't utter a /d/ in saying "sandwich" or "handbag" (which in rapid speech is indistinguishable from "ham-bag").

[nq:2]That's not true, but not for the reasons others have ... said they would. You don't pronounce the d in handsome?[/nq]
[nq:1]Native speakers of English don't, unless dictating to children. In the same way they don't utter a /d/ in saying "sandwich" or "handbag" (which in rapid speech is indistinguishable from "ham-bag").[/nq]
I'm English and have just a vestige of a "d" in handsome an

The pronunciation of this "d" ressembles that of the "t" in "castle".

Regards,Einde O'Callaghan

Einde O'Callaghan filted:
[nq:2]You don't pronounce the d in handsome?[/nq]
[nq:1]The pronunciation of this "d" ressembles that of the "t" in "castle".[/nq]
Or "hautboy"..r

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