Larnin

There are days when I am convinced that I will never get the French accent right. Trying to pronounce apprendre -- which can be roughly spelled out as app-pron-duh-ruh --has caused the last 24 hours to be one of those days. Its got one of those -- I don't know the right word, I think of it as glottal stop --sounds somewhere around that first R, and it does not play nicely with my denture. I think of that sound as 'you're trying to hock up a hairball, and it's refusing to budge'. No, really -- go listen.