[Ads-l] "Boxed" adj > "box"

[Herb Stahlke]

This is another example of what's been called "ice cream" words, where the
final alveolar of past participles deletes between a consonant and a stop.

ice tea
firs base
cream corn
smoke pork chops

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 9:43 AM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> We've all been seeing "box set" (of a trilogy, set of CDs, etc.) for a long
> time. I've never liked it, but /bɔkssɛt/ is an unsurprising elision from
> /bɔkstsɛt/.
>
> But this morning I see in the current (April(!)) issue of *Consumer Reports
> On Health* , p.7, top of the 3rd column
> "One drawback of canned and box soups: sodium."
>
> It's the same cluster reduction, /bɔ*kst*sup/ > /bɔ*kss*up/. It's just the
> first I recall seeing other than "... set".
>
> MAM
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