Mark A Mandel wrote: > In any phonetic senxe, "guttural" means 'referring to the throat'. A > gbguttural sound is one that's made in the throad. (I may have typos in > this message; I'm getting lousy response time from this ISP.) Examples > would be English /g, k, ng, h/, and, you might say even more so, Arabic > or Georgian /q, q'/. None of the sounds people have been describing here > as "guttural" are particularly so. I suspect you guys mean something > like "inarticulate", hm? > > Ah ha. Merriam-Webster OnLine sez: > > >>1 : articulated in the throat <guttural sounds> >>2 : VELAR [that's like /g, k, ng/] >>3 : being or marked by utterance that is strange, unpleasant, or > > disagreeable > > Were you-all thinking of #3? I was thinking of a grunt as something articulated in the throat (i.e. #1). Thus why I was surprised to find out that "uh-uh" and "uh-huh" count as grunts. I don't know if I'm being lulled by some onomatopoeic inclination on my part that says grunts should be guttural. Jose -- Jose Marquez jhereg69 at earthlink.net