For example:
Break: ABCDEFGHIJK
Roll-Off: LMNOP
You can say “LMNOP” much faster, because it “rolls off the tongue”. This is the first example I could think of.
Why does this happen?
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Some letters are more complicated to say. For example, the vowel sound for A. It’s not just a single sound. If you focus on what you’re doing, you’ll realise your tongue starts low and towards the back of your mouth, but it ends forward and higher. It starts sounding like the vowel in “bass” and ends like the the vowel in “key,” for example. This takes time.
Others, like H, require a break before you start them. H is called the aspirant, because it starts by just breathing out. F also needs a bit of a break after the E.
B, C, and D make your bottom lip do a bit of gymnastics. B and D start with your lip in one spot, but C starts with is further forward. So it kinda has to jump back and forth.
Meanwhile, LMN has a sort of constant vowel sound, and just uses a flick of the tongue or a quick pinch of the lips to break it up.
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