Re: USAGE: syllables

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> Rules wouldn't be any fun if there weren't exceptions. Could this be taken as
> evidence in favour of the idea that Germanic [sp-], [st-] and [sk-] are
> monophonemic?
In that light, it's interesting that in OE and ON (but not Old Saxon)
alliterative verse, each of these alliterated only with itself and not
with other words in s-.  In Goedelic these also exist and have a special
status as the only full consonant clusters with no epenthetic schwas, AFAIK.

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