... ["An example is "llyfr"
(book)" (wouldn't this have been very interesting, and a source for many
dissertations, if sefer started with a Sin instead of a Samech?!)]. In a
humorous vein, a May 2, 1993 article in The New York Times Sunday Travel
Section (p. 39), by Pamela Petro ("Gymru and Cymru and All That"), states
that "The famous Welsh double L, as in Lloyd, is pronounced as if you happen
to sneeze violently while saying the word 'little.'"
Whatever its original sound, the Sin apparently has not been pronounced
"correctly" in 2,000 years. ...
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