Ahribar wrote:t's annoying not to have a word for the behaviour of [ks] and [gz] if we're not allowed to say that they're a sort of allophone even though each is two phonemes.
well... i cant think of any minimal pairs, can anyone? i cant think of an allophonic rule, either...
If we're on the topic of whether /ks/ is a phoneme or something: http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.p ... 710#149710. I see no evidence that it deserves any special mention in English phonology more than /ps/, /kS/, etc. IMO people are probably letting orthography misle them.
But we shouldn't be on that topic, at least not here. Since I found a conlang in which <x> is /gz/ end of story, that's on the list now, and there's nothing more to discuss.
