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> (The Romance languages lost the /k/ in the consonant cluster in /ekspr/ → /espr/.) One of the Romance languages that didn't lost it is Spanish, expresar is p

• schoen 11y ago
  Oh yeah, thanks for that counterexample! Portuguese has lost it in pronunciation but not spelling (unstressed ex → /iʃ/). (But I should be careful generalizing about some of these things because sometimes you have later scholarly borrowings from Latin, so you can have some words with the modified original root and then some words with the re-borrowed root, maybe with a different pronunciation.)