Re: Many consonants

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:45:40 -0500 Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>
writes:
> I believe latchstring is supposed to be the longest in English with
> only 6
> consonants in a row.  But its only /t_Sstr/ and spread over two
> syllables
> while strengths has 5 orthographic consonants and is pronounced
> /striNkTs/
> (in my dialect) also four consonants, but all piled on the end of
> one
> syllable.
>
> Adam
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I read some poetry for an Arts Festival yesterday, and i noticed that i
pronounced the word "fish's" as [fISs] instead of the expected [fIS@z].
I'm not sure why...


-Stephen (Steg)
 "...when in the blink of a cave-fish's blind eye..."