fricative

• Yes, the lips press once, and then the tongue tip touches six times, making a quick change each time: voiceless fricative-stop, voiced stop, voiced affricate, voiceless stop, voiceless fricative, voiced nasal!
• Jane, I went to the Zoo and tried to access or join and got a serious bilabial fricative. —  Think Progress
• Inspirational: When rethugs speak, we have a serious anal fricative. wow, what a plethora of intelligent conversation out here. sounds like nursery school. jeez, no wonder our country is inundated with stupidity. the american people should file a class action against NYSUT, the NEA and every other teachers union for the dumbing of america. —  Think Progress
• Phonetics, sound, as or, comprising a stop developing into a fricative. affrication, affusion —  xml's Blinklist.com
• The spelling "Connaught", reflecting an earlier English orthographical practice of representing the voiceless velar fricative sound / x /, now lost in English, with the letters "gh", was officially used under British rule and is still found in print. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]

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