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Is the "sht" sound taking over for the "st&qu

Guessst   Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:15 pm GMT

<<What one earth is effeminate about the 's' sound? >> Yeah. Whenever I read newssspapersss and magasssinesss while whissspering to myssself, I don't feel effeminate

Josh Lalonde   Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:22 pm GMT

I do this with /str/ and sometimes with /skr/, but it's not actually [S] AFAICT. I think it's [s\], but I'd have to look at some spectrograms to be sure. In any case, the /r/ is sometimes elided in /tr/ and /dr/ clusters in my dialect, but the result isn't homophonous with /tS/ or /dZ/; I think they're [ts\] and [dz\].