-ckx consonant cluster?

[Paul Johnston]

And there's a corner of Picardy in France that has always been
Flemish speaking as well--roughly west of Lille to the sea, including
places like Cassel (Kassel) and Hazebrouck (Hasbroek), and of course,
Dunkirk/Dunkerque/Duinkerke--though the last-mentioned is now
completely French-speaking.

Paul Johnston
On Nov 28, 2007, at 3:12 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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> But isn't Daeninckx of Flemish ancestry? His first name is one of the
> many French versions of "Thedrick" (Theodoric), but that's most likely
> coincidental. I have a French friend whose surname is "van
> Bockstaele," who is of Flemish ancestry. (I realize that this adds
> nothing, but I thought that I'd just throw it in there. "What the
> hell, eh?", as a Canadian friend says.)
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> -Wilson
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> On Nov 28, 2007 1:42 PM, Chris F Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:
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>> Amy West wrote:
>>> Then I'm contaminated as well: Merckx was the example that I
>>> thought of also.
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>>> ---Amy West
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>> I first thought of the French detective novel writer Didier
>> Daeninckx,
>> who has one more consonant clustered in there.
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>> Chris Waigl
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