Re: k-like sounds in English and other European languages

<analyst41@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you look at the following consonant clusters in English, it seems
to me that

(1) kt
(2) kd
(3) gt
(4) gd

Only (1) Where k can stand for (c, ck etc.) can occur in a single word

Both /kt/ and /gd/ appear word-finally in -ed verb forms, e.g.
"packed" and "bugged".

At first I thought kd would be difficult to maintain in speech, but
then we have smackdown and back down, attack dog etc. where the 'k'
is easy to maintain (and substituting g would stand out as poor speech
pretty obviously) and sure enough they are spelt with 'ck'.

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