Re: Droppin' Ds

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Vasiliy Chernov wrote:

>>Was the -u- accented in OS ascucar?
>
>Oh, sorry. The rule was formulated this way (IIRC) in some book. Perhaps,
>it cited some form with unstressed ending: _auscultat_ > _ascucha_ or
>something. But when I think of it, I can't actually say if the stress was
>important. Maybe, '[au] before [u] in the next syllable' would be enough.
This would seem to be the case. Rule 4 gives this as a subrule (in
From Latin to Romance) of the au > o rule.

>Basilius