Silent double-L?

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:43 PM -0400 5/20/10, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>Spanish (eg, quesadilla) too.
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>DanG

And tortilla.  But again, these arguably have /y/s in there between
the /i/ and the /a/.  Hard to tell, at least for me.

LH

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>On 5/20/2010 8:52 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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>>    From the lack of examples, I infer that it exists in English only in
>>(a very few?) words taken from French.
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>>Joel
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