CHAT: "T's okay" and initial /ts/ affricates

Laurie Gerholz wrote:

> S'Okay.
I know this is totally offtopic from what you were talking about, but I couldn't
resist this one: you say /soukei/ rather than /tsoukei/?  I find this very interesting,
because I've been noticing around here that people regularly use the affricate
/ts/ rather than the fricative /s/, which seems to go against Standard English
phonology (but then it shouldn't be surprising because Standard English is an
artificial phenomenon anyways).  I know I use the affricate usually, unless I'm
*really* tired. So, what do other people use here? I would be most interested in
knowing. :)


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