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Consonant clusters (was Citation forms of words,and the cynicism required to study Georgian)

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 12, 2001, 23:16
Pavel Iosad wrote:
> > (Somehow, the more extreme examples in English phonology -- "two > > sixths [t_hu: sIksTs]" -- never seem to come up in these discussions.) > > Indeed. The same word you cite is the one I try avoiding in English :-)
Does anyone actually pronounce the first s in that cluster? I say [sIkTs] -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42

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