fricative

“After hearing these guys enunciate the name of the Italian fashion house 158 times within 3 minutes 7 seconds,” he wrote, “it becomes apparent that this three-syllable word — with its intoxicating combination of fricative consonants — is surprisingly fun to say out loud, over and over and over.”

Important point of pronunciation: You don’t pronounce Qarabag carra-bag, or – and I see at the top of this page we spell it Karabakh, but it isn’t pronounced carra-bak either – you pronounce it kurra-barh, ending with the sound known to phoneticians as ʁ, or the voiced uvular fricative.

In particular, tweeters and emailers want to know why I drop the letter G off the end of the present continuous and why I can’t pronounce the dental fricative – or “th” sound as it’s known to the rest of us.

The reMarkable screen isn’t made out of glass, but rather a more durable and fricative material that really does feel like writing on paper with a pen or pencil.

Migos first stammered their way across our national eardrums in the summer of 2013 with “Versace,” an intoxicating Mobius strip of fricative consonants, but as rappers, they’ve never sounded more deeply attuned to one another — or to the vibrations of their surroundings — than they do right now.