From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!scott
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Puzzles
Article-I.D.: pur-ee.385
Posted: Tue Jun 29 11:59:32 1982
Received: Wed Jun 30 04:46:48 1982

I gave a linguistic puzzle to some friends of mine whom
I see regularly.  They took a week to work on it and finally
gave up and asked me for a new one.  Does anybody out there have a
list of favorite linguistic puzzles?  The one that they eventually
gave up on was to describe the difference between a Sri Lankan
"b" and an American "b". (They are from Sri Lanka and their
native language is english).  The answer was that a Sri Lankan
"b" is unaspirated.

	Scott Deerwester

(Is anybody still submitting things to this group?  I've
mailed three requests to this group with no responses...
Is anybody out there??)