Re: Tech: One, two, three, four, five consonant words

 In my own odd idiolect of english (only when I'm talking to closely related
people, or my best friends), all s's before stops become f's

so I say:  ftop rather than stop
           ftring rather than string
and I can't remember anything else, but there's more!

 Elliott

<< On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 11:57:21AM -0400, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Danny Wier wrote:
> >dwag "a fish"    dwga "many fish"
>
> Dwga! And I thought Tairezazh had scary initial clusters! (I'm currently
> trying to decide whetehr /fk/ is a valid initial cluster or not. If not,
> would a fk>sk change be believeable?)
>It sure would. Old English had a change of (word->initial) fn > sn, e.g.
>sneeze < fne:osan (although the AHD4 calls this >example an 'alteration,'
>suggesting to me that it wasn't a regular sound >change, but still...).
But I like /fk/ :)

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