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??)