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On 6/29/05, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@hidden.email> wrote: > I'm probably obsessing over getting this right, but here are some reversal > pairs for hot and cold that I've come up with > > frua (frwah) cold from French, then faur for hot > tori, hot from English torrid, then tiro for cold > krio, cold from Greek, then koir for hot > samui, cold from Japanese, then siuma tori/tiro and samui/siuma would probably be easiest to pronounce. > Basically, I'd like them to be one-syllable, but clearly distinct as > opposites. The two one-syllable versions are probably harder for a lot of people to pronounce. I remember French sequences as in "froid", reproduced in your "frua", as causing a fair amount of trouble for me and my fellow students when I was studying French in college -- with the initial cluster having fricative, liquid and a semivowel: that's hard (at first, anyway) for people whose native languages have a lot of other consonant clusters, never mind people whose native languages have no consonant clusters at all. -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/review/log.htm