What were they thinking?

Language Log 2017-09-16

Summary:

Alex Baumans writes: Perhaps no news to you, but I just discovered that the new Range Rover model is called the Velar. I wonder if the Uvular will be next. To be followed by the Range Rover Pharyngeal and the Range Rover Glottal. (Or maybe a hybrid version called the Range Rover Labiovelar?) And Jeep […]

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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=34524

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Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

09/16/2017, 10:02

Date published:

09/16/2017, 09:18