A nice Southernism . . .

[ronbutters at AOL.COM]

The phrase CLUSTER SIMPLIFICATION may of course remind one of any number of irrelevant things that she has just seen on TV (or not),, some of which may (accidentally) be crude.

However, CONSONANT CLUSTER is a well known term in linguistics. And FINAL CONSONANT CLUSTER SIMPLIFICATION is the usual term employed to name the rule that describes the phenomenon in English whereby a word-final consonant is variably deleted iff it is alike in voicing with the consonant that immediately precedes it (i.e., both must be either voiced or not voiced) .
------Original Message------
From: Doug_Harris
To: ronbutters at aol.com
To: ADS-L
Sent: Sep 3, 2008 11:35 AM
Subject: RE: A nice Southernism . . .

'Sounds like the end result of what The Daily Show
referred to as the "cluster f*ck" aka the primary season.
dh

R Butters wrote of:
cluster simplification . . .



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