![]() Tiffany came up with a new verb last night, "Anxsh." It's when you're >feeling anxiety for whatever reason and you just need to sit with it and "anxsh" for a bit. when "anxious" is truncated to "anxsh" (compare "usual" > " yoozh"): here's some evidence that this kind of clipping is possible for English speakers: I can also imagine English speakers pronouncing these sequences at the end of words formed as clippings, e.g. But on the other hand, I think they are easily pronounceable as-is in word-final position for most English speakers, and /kʃ/ at least would not tend to be replaced by any other sequence in proper names such as Baksh, Buksh or Anksh (I haven't found any proper names ending in /gʒ/). On the one hand, no English words in common use end in /ŋ(k)ʃ/, /kʃ/ or /gʒ/. In my view, adopting Wells's principle makes it a little problematic to determine how anxious and luxury are syllabified, because it raises the question of whether /ŋ(k)ʃ/, /kʃ/ and /gʒ/ are ever possible coda clusters in English, which I find difficult to answer. That principle would yield the syllabification /ˈtæks.i/. Gimson (London and New York: Routledge, 1990)). However, there is a competing principle of syllabifying as many consonants as possible with the adjacent syllable with greater stress, explained by John Wells in " Syllabification and allophony" (originally published in Susan Ramsaran (ed.), Studies in the pronunciation of English, A commemorative volume in honour of A.C. In the case of taxi, an "onset maximizing" approach to syllabification would yield /ˈtæk.si/. ![]() That pronunciation would only be found in an accent where syllable-final exists-such accents exist, but the use of syllable-final instead of is considered a regionalism rather than a neutral feature of the English sound system. Thus:Īs I wrote in my answer to Why is Anxiety Sometimes Pronounced With a 'g' sound?, it's actually not typical for anxiety to have a between the and. ![]() In the two cases you've mentioned where the syllable after the consonant cluster is stressed, it is fairly unanimously agreed that the syllabification goes between the two consonants.
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