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From: phoogenb@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Peter Hoogenboom)
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of foreign words
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Bill Fisher (billf@osi.ncsl.nist.gov) wrote:
: In article <314E3507.31BE@netvision.net.il>, Avi Jacobson <avi_jaco@netvision.net.il> writes:
: > diferencia?  No -- porque does consonantes iniciales no pueden existir en 
: > espa~ol.
: > 

:   Dos consonantes? Como "prueba" e "platano"?

Avi is using a little-known Spanish contraction:  "does" = "da opening 
es".  Translation:  Da opening es initial consonant is not found in Spanish.

Peter

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