JS Bangs scripsit:
> What other words begin with a sequence of two fricatives? Onset clusters
> with /s/ are always s + stop, except for this word.
"sphinx".
> Exactly. English has almost zero words beginning with voiced fricative +
> liquid.
Not surprising, since fricative voicing didn't operate initially in most
dialects.
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