Re: Six, -ts- > -ks-

Or maybe different outcomes of palatalized /s/: a) shifting the
articulation points (/s'/ to /s^/); or b) detaching palatality and fixing it to
the left of the consonant.--Jim Rader

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> I think that's not so much an evolution of Lat. -x- to /s^/, but a
> secondary evolution of /is/, /js/ > /s^/.
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> Examples which have survived in English: finish < finisser (Latin
> -sc-), anguish < angoisse (Latin -stj-), cushion < coissin (Lat -x-),
> fashion < faisson (Lat -ktj-), cash < caisse (Lat. -ps-).
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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