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> Phil Cook v2 wrote:
>
>> To put it another way how do you know they were silent letters, how many 
>> voice recordings were there in the 17th century? Words such as knife 
>> might have entered as the standard spelling because the k was still 
>> pronounced at the time.
>
> Except that it's impossible to pronounce that.
>
It is not because your tongue is not trained at doing a sound that it is 
impossible
 listen at Xhosa click language :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_l7ty_MH_Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZlp-croVYw

Marc

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