Re: CHAT: Japanese English (was Re: Correction,I hope,of M/C URL)

Nik Taylor:
> And Rosta wrote:
> > Surely this is not a spelling pronunciation. That would be /stSIzm/,
> > surely, which is not used.
>
> I don't know of a single English word with /stS/, "sch" is usually /sk/
> as in "school" or /S/ as in some pronunciations of "schedule" (tho not
> mine), but mostly in German names like Schneider.  /stS/ is simply an
> impossible cluster in the English language.
Well, if true, that would mean that there is no spelling pronuniciation
for word-initial <sch>. But anyway, in certain accents of English English
at least, [stS] or [StS] or [ScS] can start words, and there are no
really good reasons not to analyse those as /stS/. Examples are words
beginning in _stu-_ and _str-_, which could well be /stSu:-/ and /stSr-/
or /StSu:-/ and /StSr-/. I know that most US accents yod-drop so would
treat _stu- differently, but IIRC the treatment of _str-_ that I
describe has been observed in the US.

--And.