Re: phonemic spellin of "science"

Raymond Brown wrote:
> But _not_ as syllabic onset.  And in the traditional Sussex dialect, that'd
> be 'guestes' (or even 'guesteses'  :)
Is -es the normal plural, or only in certain environments?

Reminds me of a character on an old sketch show who always used to talk
about "great big breasteses(es)".

> Only in slow, deliberate speech.  The first /t/ surely disappears in
> 'allegro speech'.
I'm not sure, I think I produce that /stst/ in regular speach, in fact,
I'm usually quite conscious of that when it happens.  But my idiolect
may be unusual.  It's hard to tell, since it's pretty rare that such a
cluster would occur.

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