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Re: Sidestepping Spelling Reform

From:<jcowan@...>
Date:Friday, January 30, 2004, 16:39
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_