CHAT: Japanese English (was Re: Correction,I hope,of M/CURL)

Nik Taylor wrote:

> And Rosta wrote:
> > Surely this is not a spelling pronunciation. That would be /stSIzm/, surely,
> > which is not used.
>
> I don't know of a single English word with /stS/, "sch" is usually /sk/
> as in "school" or /S/ as in some pronunciations of "schedule" (tho not
> mine), but mostly in German names like Schneider.  /stS/ is simply an
> impossible cluster in the English language.
Not impossible phonologically or phonetically, as in, for example,
/krIstS@n/, <Christian>.   It would be quite impossible, however,
to derive /stS/  from <sch>.  Even if it were just <ch> alone, there
would be no assurance that a random person on the street would
pronounce it /tS/ rather than /k/ -- there are plenty enough Greek
loan words in English that preserve that /k/ to lead them to the latter
possibility.

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