Americans sometimes finger the uvular fricatives (r) in German as harsh, but French has the same sound and French doesn't get called harsh, Sharon Inkelas, a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, told The Huffington Post in an email.
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About two-thirds of the electricity used in Massachusetts is made with natural gas, up from about 40 percent just six years ago. Meanwhile, many more consumers have switched from oil to gas to heat their homes. Despite the alarms, the regionâs reliance on the fuel has only grown.