In article <650e6p$ahv$1@darla.visi.com>, seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) writes:
>
>English has a wide variety of consonant clusters, and happily adopts
>words from nearly any other language; this has been a great strength
>for it.
>

That is hardly an argument.  If you try hard enough you can do it
in any language.  Take French:

   CD   == c�d�
   mail == m�l

Yes, they are serious.

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Boyd Roberts <boyd@france3.fr>			UTM N 31 447109 5411310

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