This is unbelieveable!  Is this medicine or science, or just insane?

Are there testimonies, or evidence that this actually helps?

Maybe we should start checking our children for such defects, before we critize their phonology?

Korea turns to plastic surgery to speak English

"Those who have a short frenulum [a strap of tissue linking the tongue to the floor of the mouth] can face problems pronouncing some characters due to a disturbance in lateral movements of the tongue."

Sitran

I thought the frenulum was much lower down in the body, but then I probably read too many medical dictionaries at an impressionable age.

Coemgenus (<< They should ban that man from posting on Saturday nights)

Of course, there are two famous frenula on the male human body, we are talking about the gender neutral one here under the tongue.

YD.com:

fren·u·lum n. pl. fren·u·la

  1. Anatomy A small frenum.
  2. Entomology A bristly structure on the hind wings of certain moths and butterflies that holds the forewings and hind wings together during flight.

fre·num n. pl. fre·nums or fre·na

   A membranous fold of skin or mucous membrane that supports or restricts the movement of a part or organ, such as the small band of tissue that connects the underside of the tongue to the floor of the mouth.

[Latin frenum, bridle, from frendere, to grind; see ghrendh- in Indo-European roots.]

Sitran

PS Coemgenus:

(<< They should ban that man from posting on Saturday nights)

And early Sunday mornings too?

[quote author=Sitran link=board=omni;num=1066513520;start=0#2 date=10/18/03 at 18:12:56]And early Sunday mornings too?

Not yet: 23.30 BST here.

C.