Re: NATLANG: o 0? re: consonant clusters
| From: | Douglas Koller, Latin & French <latinfrench@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 13, 2002, 20:38 |
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Tristan wrote:
>Nik Taylor wrote:
>
>>Christophe Grandsire wrote:
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>>>Yes indeed. Which shows how strange English is, which keeps
>>>untouched clusters
>>>like /sk-/ and /st-/, but simplified clusters like /kn-/, /ks-/ or
>>>/gz-/, and
>>>still does synchronically :)) .
>>>
>But! But! That's because /st-/ is easy to pronounce, but /gz-/ isn't!
>(There, a definitive statement!)
Hey, them's fightin' words on Géarthtörs!
Kou