<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">--- On <b>Tue, 27/10/09, Michael McCafferty <i><mmccaffe@indiana.edu></i></b> wrote:<br>> However, a greater obstacle to your /te:ku:skikalpa(n)/is explaining <br>> the disappearance of the /k/ of /ku:ski/. If /sk/ was a challenging <br>> consonant
pair for early Spanish speakers, then you may be home free. But I don't
know<br>> about that. Others on the list may have a thing or two to say
about this.<br><br>Dissimilation? The word contains three k sounds and is thus a bit of a tongue-twister; the middle k dropped out.<br><br>Citlalyani.<br> <br></td></tr></table>