vl cluster spotting

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Nov 10, 2007 6:44 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> >In a message dated 11/10/07 2:31:04 PM, gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM writes:
> >
> >>  Right. The interesting thing about "vlog", though, is the potential to
> >>  become a common word. BB
> >
> >wouldn't "V-log" be more natural?
>
> Not if the model is the monosyllabic "blog".

Cf. other blog-blends that create new initial consonant clusters:

splog: spam blog
phlog: photo blog
flog: fake blog
plog: political blog
klog: knowledge blog

But then again, the last one is often written as "K-log", so there
would be precedent for "V-log".


--Ben Zimmer

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