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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Massachusetts campgrounds are operated at many of the dozens of state forests and state parks throughout the state, in the Berkshires region of Massachusetts, including Great Barrington and Stockbridge, and in the Connecticut River Valley towns of Springfield, West Springfield, Northampton, and Amherst.