Error in Truespel dictionary?

[Dennis Preston]

Can we see spectrograms of your family? Just to be sure.

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>Poster:       Katharine The Grate <KatharineTheGrate at COMCAST.NET>
>Subject:      Re: Error in Truespel dictionary?
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>I checked with my family.   We don't.   "princess" just slides off like
>"prinsis"
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>Katharine in N. California
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>I tested "prince" and "princess" on the Truespel site. The first came
>back as "prints" but the second came back as "prinsis". AFAIK, it is
>nearly impossible for nearly all English speakers to pronounce
>"prinsis" without a /t/ sound. BB
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Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor
Department of English
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Michigan State University
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