"By non-phoneticians any mode of pronunciation which is harsh or grating in effect is often supposed to be 'guttural'; with this notion the designation is popularly applied by Englishmen to the German ''ch,'' but not to ''k'' or ''g,'' though technically it belongs equally to them. (is, they are all pronounced at the same location in the mouth. ) As a technical term of phonetics, the word was first used to denote the Hebrew spirant consonants ע ,ח ,ה ,א (is, glottal and , uvular , and pharyngeal ); it is now commonly applied (inaccurately, if its etymological sense be regarded) to the sounds formed by the back of the tongue and the palate, as () (velars )."