How Many Consonants Can You Pronounce Together?
rogersgeorge on June 24th, 2020
The word “strengths” is well known (well, in linguistic circles) for the fact that if you say the whole word, you pronounce four consonants in a row, even though people frequently leave out the “th.” Pronounce strengths fully: s-tr-eng-k-th-s. Or the lazy way, s-tr-eng-k-s.
Another word that follows this pattern occurred to me: twelfths. Often we say “tw-el-f-s” but we can also say “tw-el-f-th-s.” How do you pronounce it?
So. Can you think of any other words like these? Add them to the comments.
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