consonants

[charlesg]

          Try "umershchvlju" 1st sg. from umertvit'; I'm assuming the
          pronunciation with the cluster shch, but even if one uses
          the alternate pronuncation with a long soft sh, there are
          still five consonantal segments in a row.  Once in a class a
          native Russian, upon hearing the example, exclaimed that it
          was "a crime against sound."
                Charles Gribble  Gribble.3 at osu.edu