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Default TN: Basque wine with "paella"

On Sep 25, 4:29�pm, santiago > wrote:
> DaleW > wrote :
>
> > I'm a bad person to ask, folks can tell you even my French
> > pronunciation is poor. For that matter my English is iffy. But I say
> > something along the lines of "Cho men" and "Cha ko li". Pretty sure
> > the Tx is a Ch sound.

>
> I agree with Cha ko li. Txomin is more like Cho min (like the min in
> minute).
>
> Best from Spain,
>
> s.


Why I'm so poor at trying to phoneticize speech- to me "men" is the
same as the min in minute!