Re: English {phth} (was: Hellenish oddities)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 25, 2000, 0:15 |
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Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> In Danish (as in English) the official pronunciation is /sf-/, but
> (unlike English) there really aren't any word in common use where it
> is initial.
There aren't in English either. Sphere is the *only* word that I know
of with an initial /sf/, which is quite odd. Not only is it the only
case of initial /sf/, but the only case of two fricatives in an initial.