Klarinet Archive - Posting 000425.txt from 1999/01

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Licolice Licks
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:30:31 -0500

From: Christian Budde <emv080@-----.de>
>So far I got it. 'Licorice stick' is a nice name for a clarinet esp.
>if you like licorice ;-) (I use this name for my own clarinet often).
>
>But why 'Licolice'?
> ^
>Only to get in another 'l' or was there no 'r' left?
>It seems to me that consonants being out of stock gets rather endemic
>lately :_)

Ummm ... I'm guessing a letter transposition error on the part of the sender
of the message. My wife's Japanese and that's how she'd probably spell it.
Stereotyping, I know :^)

L's and R's are commonly transposed by native Japanese speakers.

Cheers,
Mark Charette@-----.org

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