Re: basic two-consonant clusters in English

On Oct 16, 4:09 pm, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Peter T. Daniels wrote:
On Oct 16, 1:27 pm, analys...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Oct 13, 7:24 pm, analys...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Oct 13, 12:24 pm, analys...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I wish to limit myself to p,t,k,b,d,g for the time being.
Are statistics available as to the frequency of occurrence of the 36
possibilities?
The first interesting juxtaposition I can think of is in
'blackguard'. M-W gives three pronunciations - in two of which the
'k' isn't sounded.
next question:

is "backed down" homophonous with "back down"?

Probably. But they can't occur in identical environments, so (a) one
can't be sure and (b) it doesn't matter.

I always back down (when the boss wants me to work over the weekend).

I always backed down (when my old boss wanted me to work over the weekend).

(The two contexts have been established by the discourse even if the
following clause isn't spoken.)

It has nothing to do with your idiotic claim about /gd/, however.
It's /k#d/ all the way.

Yup.

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