The first L sound is plainly pronounced by BBC presenter. Yet the second one is from an Irish professor, and it seems to a bit vibrate by his tongue’s tightly wiggly snap or something else. What’s the reason I hear like that; what I said before is the real reason?
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It seems to me to be simply idiosyncratic of the speaker: he hesitates a fraction, but the mechanics seem the same to me.
— Mister Micawber
It seems to me to be simply idiosyncratic of the speaker: he hesitates a fraction, but the mechanics seem the same to me.
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