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Re: CHAT: ConScripts

From:Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 7, 2007, 10:42
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