gutturalness

Updated: May 12, 2025

Rebner also urged that Gard could in Deutschland improve his German which, notwithstanding his affection for his preceptor, was indifferent. Its gutturalness grated on his nerves, antagonized him. But he criticized himself for this, not the language. Had not his old mentor always sung of the superiorities of that tongue?

Stuart Oliver Henry - Villa Elsa: A Story of German Family Life