Re: Sidestepping Spelling Reform

Roger Mills scripsit:

> These may be gaps in the system that _can_ be filled, unlike initial
> Stop+nasal, which is flat out forbidden.
How do you pronounce "tmesis"?

> /sD.../ seems not to occur.
/D/ is very restricted in English:  initially in function words,
intervocalically, and finally where -e has fallen, is about it.  "With"
also can have [T] or [D] variably.

> There are always going to be a handful of exceptions.
Indeed.

--
John Cowan  jcowan@reutershealth.com  http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Does anybody want any flotsam? / I've gotsam.
Does anybody want any jetsam? / I can getsam.
        --Ogden Nash, _No Doctors Today, Thank You_