Re: CHAT: ConScripts

Den 4. aug. 2007 kl. 17.44 skrev Mark J. Reed:

> In fluid speech the /t/ in "crafts" disappears for me.  It seems to be
> more likely to survive in the plain word than in compounds like
> "craftsman", but only barely.  Most of the time it's gone.  Though not
> forgotten - the [s] at least *feels* a bit more dental than in, say,
> "carafes".
Coming to think about "craftsman" again, I believe I have heard it
pronounced with 5 consecutive consonants, one of them syllabic. That
is including the /t/, of course. With "craftsmanship" it would be 6,
if all of them are preserved there. Is that a record, or what?

LEF