[Spellyans] <kk> and <ck>

nicholas williams njawilliams at gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 09:33:51 GMT 2008


Trenkles is a compound of trenk 'bitter' and les 'plant'; there is  
juncture in this word, so the rules for uncompounded words don't apply.
taclow but trenkles is quite logical.

Nicholas

On 18 Dec 2008, at 02:04, <ajtrim at msn.com> <ajtrim at msn.com> wrote:

> I note however that UCR, at least, has <trenkles> for "rhubarb", and  
> this fails the above rules.





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