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Maelstrom Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

What do you call these words?

The words that include/end with a lot of consonants at the end.

Such as "asked", "kiosks", "risks" and etc.

I don't know if there's a specific term for it SO I'm asking Emotion: smile
  

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I don't know of a term for the words themselves, but they end in 'consonant clusters'. You can find information at several sites about the "reduction" of these clusters in normal speech, if that's what you're after.

— Philip

  • I don't know of a term for the words themselves, but they end in 'consonant clusters'.
  • You can find information at several sites about the "reduction" of these clusters in normal speech, if that's what you're after.
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I don't know of a term for the words themselves, but they end in 'consonant clusters'. You can find information at several sites about the "reduction" of these clusters in normal speech, if that's what you're after.
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One of the finest consonant clusters I know of in English is in 'George VI's throne'. If we produced all the phonemes clearly (which we don't), we would have ks?s?r
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maelstrom What do you call these words? ... words that include/end with a lot of consonants at the end.
I call them words with a lot of consonants at the end.

English doesn't have a word for everything!

CJ
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