machhezan wrote:

>>Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>unnamed vs unaimed
>>>bookcase vs bookie
>>>rat-trap vs ratty
>>>
>>>
>
>Ph. D. wrote:
>
>
>>Many bank holding companies have
>>added "Bancorp" to their names. Again, this is
>>intended to be read "Bank Corp."
>>
>>
>
>Just of curiosity: Do you consider that in these cases you should
>pronounce two plosions or just a long consonant? In my southern
>German dialect which is sensitive to consonant length, we would
>naturally lengthen the consonants in similar cases, but I don't know
>how this works in a language like English that doesn't have
>distinctive consonant length.
>
>
>

I've wondered about this some in Klingon. Okrand talks about it at some
point in one of the books, how some double consonants are more likely
than others to be pronounced as geminates, and by some people. One
thing he doesn't treat is the matter of geminate affricates, like in
{Quchchu'} or {ghajjaj}. I find that I regularly pronounce these with
*two* plosive releases, not as a long affricate but as two. This may be
due to the fact that they occur across morpheme boundaries.

~mark