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24/12/2014

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the organ-grinder

On some early recordings (e.g. by the Comedian Harmonists) you can hear a guy who's been drafted in give unanimity to the final Ts.

Alon Lischinsky

Spanish […] has no words ending with the airway obstructed or the mouth closed.

It's true that unvoiced obstruents in word coda position were lost or lenited in Old Spanish, but there's a goodish number of well-established cultisms and borrowings that have them: cénit, acimut (from Arabic), déficit, superávit, plácet (from Latin), carnet, vermut (from French), robot (from Czech), etc.

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