Amazing displays of ignoranceSandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "My dad's friend told us there's no such thing as gravity - it's just the weight of air holding us down". Tell us of times you've been floored by abject stupidity. "Whenever I read the Daily Express" is not a valid answer.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:48)
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this reminds me of mrs o'connorwho informed an 8yr old me that no word could possibly have three consonants in a row.
biTCH.
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the brass moustache putting the ass moust in brache since, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 18:18,
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you realisethat phonetically, bitch only has two consonants. /bɪtʃ/
Try fifths (3) or sixths (4). There aren't as many as you think. Most example I can think of are compound words, or at least at morphemic boundaries. Eg watchman.
Complex consonantal structures are a feature of Germanic languages. English had many simplified with the Norman invasion; the romantic tongues tending towards VCV or CVCV structures, and our Norman overlords couldn't pronounce them properly (think of words like knight). One of the reasons English spelling is so fucked up.
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Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 12:43,
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LatchstringIs my favourite multiple-consonant word. In fact, I've got a stiffy just thinking about it.
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the brain is a funny thingstr is pretty common initial consonantal cluster. /spl/ as well. And I just came across glimpsed and angsts although these both have morphemes attached to lengthen the clusters.
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Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 11:16,
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