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Showing posts with label consonant cluster. Show all posts
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Sunday, 13 May 2007

the W()RD

Georgian has the world record for a consonant cluster, a group of consonants in a word with no vowel among them. This word comes close but isn't it:
mts'vrtneli, "trainer"
THIS is the record breaker:
gvprtskvni, "you are peeling us"
NOT for the faint of heart!