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English has a couple of pure examples: 'Mrs' and 'Nth' I can think of. You can extend this with exclamations/onomatopoeia (eg: 'hmm', 'shh', 'brr'), but can se
by d1sxeyes 5y ago
English has a couple of pure examples: 'Mrs' and 'Nth' I can think of.
You can extend this with exclamations/onomatopoeia (eg: 'hmm', 'shh', 'brr'), but can see that these are not 'normal words'.
- bloak 5y agoInterjections can contain sounds that don't occur in ordinary words. In German there's "tja", and in English there's "tsk", which is a click, quite an unusual sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_click