Re: phonemic spellin of "science"

Carlos Thompson wrote:

> or how 'bout "The next's better" with an
> interesting /ksts/.
In fact that would normally be pronounced simply /ks/, and is homophonous
with "The neck's better".  Except in the most careful speech, English
is not so cluster-rich as its orthography indicates.

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