From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
>> In an English context, my brain would probably hear [kat] as "gut" ...
>>
>
>But I do pronounce the [V] without a problem! I never had problems to be
>understood, so I guess with the context of my whole pronunciation people just
>unconsciously adjust their "phoneme map" to my realisations :)) .
Well, in English anyway you can do a lot of bending. Someone posted that story
of "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" as an example:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/ladle/
*Muke!