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Y'all would probably enjoy Wikipedia's discussions of English phonotactics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonotactics#English_phonotactics https://en.wikipedi
by geofft 6y ago
Y'all would probably enjoy Wikipedia's discussions of English phonotactics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonotactics#English_phonotactics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonotactics#English_phonotact...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology#Phonotactics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology#Phonotactics
/ʃm/ is not a legal onset in native English. (Let alone /tʃm/, which is how I pronounce "chmod" - two syllables, /tʃə 'mɔːd/.)
"Schmear" is a Yiddish loanword coming from German, where /ʃm/ is perfectly legal. So it's pronounceable by the human mouth, it's just a little awkward for English speakers.
/sm/ and /ʃr/ are both legal in English, so you might think of it as something like those. Can you pronounce "smear" or "shrine" as one syllable?
(I'm not sure /tʃm/ is valid in any language - words or names that start with "chm" seem to be Polish/Russian words transliterating /xm/.)
- Gare 6y ago> (I'm not sure /tʃm/ is valid in any language - words or names that start with "chm" seem to be Polish/Russian words transliterating /xm/.) Oh it sure is in Croatian (and other Slavic languages), "tʃ" is written as "č". We even have slang words like "čmr-lji-ti" [t͡ʃmrʎiti]. "r" (rolling r) can function as a vowel.
- Blikkentrekker 6y ago“vzkvět” is a word in Czech that is pronounced in one syllable, exactly how it's spelled, of course. The Dutch word “striktst” is of course also pronounced exactly how it's spelled, and in one syllable.
- hashmush 6y agoOr Swedish "västkustskt" (lit. west coast-ish), where "kustskt" is one syllable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_phonology#Phonotactics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_phonology#Phonotactics On-topic, I pronounce chmod as one syllable with "sh", like schmuck.