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Re: Deseret Alphabet [was: Re: Regularized Inglish]

From:Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Thursday, September 30, 1999, 23:40
Nik Taylor wrote:

> "R. Nierse" wrote: > > If alfabets are difficult stuff and Dutch had a syllabary, what should I do > > with words like "herfstsfeer" and "angstzweet". Lot of consonantclusters. > > Yuck! And I thought English was bad with words like "strengths" > (/striNkTs/) and "walked" (/wAlkt/ - tho I still say that's immoral > having two stops in a row in SF position :-) )
"sixths" /sIksTs/ is the best example of that, IMO. (If I have a /k/ in "strength", it's only very lightly pronounced, if at all). And you don't seriously have an /l/ in "walk", do you? :)