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From: "A Halliwell" <u5a77@**.keele.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Japanese pronunciation
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 17:45:20 +0000 (GMT)
>
> u5a77 wrote
>
> >Actually, I think you'll find thr pronounciation
> >would be:
>
> > Kah Gay, Not COW or CAW. (I'm doing
> >Japanese at the moment!)
>
> What is the difference in pronounciation
> between "Kah" and "CAW"? They read the
> same to me in my dialect (Mid-Atlantic US
> English)

I'm not sure if I could put it in writing.
CAW is used to describe the sound a crow makes.
CAH... Welll.....
Say Ahhhhhh (as in at the doctors) and put the C in front
Then shorten it. Cah
Sod it. I'm no phonetics expert!
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