ANST - duck tape ...

[Timothy A. McDaniel]

Angela wrote:
> Um, it's "duct" tape, isn't it?

I think there's a linguistics term for the phenomenon -- when a
consonant at the end of a word gets dropped or assimilated into the
next word's start.  ("Assimilated" itself means "change of a sound in
speech so that it becomes identical with or similar to a neighboring
sound <the usual assimilation of \z\ to \sh\ in the phrase his shoe>",
says http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm ).

Daniel de Lincolia
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