No, because you're bounding a vowel ie. a continuant next to another continuant. From Wordnik.com. [Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops] Reference
ROLAND MARTIN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Well, actually, what we were looking at is in terms of really a continuant. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2008] Reference
The best representatives of the Center, the continuant party, are of course popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
His terms determinate, determinable, occurrent, continuant and ostensive definition have entered the philosophical lexicon. From Wordnik.com. [Determinates vs. Determinables] Reference
I notice that this happens only when they want to emphasize a word, because in other instances the frictionless continuant is used. From Wordnik.com. [The Oxford BBC Guide to Pronunciation | Linguism | Language Blog] Reference
This of course applies only to the ‘pre-vocalic’ R which is normally realized as a ‘frictionless continuant’ by such speakers. From Wordnik.com. [The Oxford BBC Guide to Pronunciation | Linguism | Language Blog] Reference
In the above example, people don't take the time to address vital questions that should be bubbling up in all of our noggins: 1. Why Latin unvoiced stop ('p') for Etruscan voiced nasal continuant ('m')?. From Wordnik.com. [Latin 'pulcher': Is it really an Etruscan loan?] Reference
Somalis collecting money wired to them from relatives abroad in a system known as the Hawala, an unregulated system that the U.S. now believes bin Laden may have used to move money as a continuant to move money undetected about the globe to al Qaeda operatives, but a lifeline, too for tens and thousand of Somali families. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2002] Reference
An extended definition takes the continuant with respect to three sequences. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The extended continuant is precisely the determinant of the tridiagonal matrix. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
˜continuant™ is sometimes used as a neutral term for any ordinary persisting thing. From Wordnik.com. [Temporal Parts] Reference
We may have knowing of our Self in this life by continuant help and virtue of our high Nature. From Wordnik.com. [Revelations of Divine Love] Reference
The one was endless continuant love, with secureness of keeping, and blissful salvation, -- for of this was all the. From Wordnik.com. [Revelations of Divine Love] Reference
˜occurrent™ from the ˜continuant™ and often discusses change, cause, and continuants with reference to determinates of determinables. From Wordnik.com. [Determinates vs. Determinables] Reference
For it seemed by his outward clothing as he had been a continuant labourer of long time, and by the inward sight that I had both of the Lord and the Servant it seemed that he was a. From Wordnik.com. [Revelations of Divine Love] Reference
And then shall we, with His sweet grace, in our own meek continuant prayer come unto Him now in this life by many privy touchings of sweet spiritual sights and feeling, measured to us as our simpleness may bear it. From Wordnik.com. [Revelations of Divine Love] Reference
Dieu nous a en toutes nos besoignes be 'vueliz aide; de quoi nous sumes a touz jo's tenuz de lui grazier, en p'ant que v're part ancy vieullietz faire en continuant dev's nous come devant ces heures avetz fait, de quoi nous nous tenons g'n'ment tenuz a vous. From Wordnik.com. [A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum] Reference
Qu’appris-je sur mon père en continuant à lire ma lettre?. From Wordnik.com. [Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant] Reference
Bonaparte continuant à s'addresser an Sous-Prefét, lui dit, "Que fait le. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.] Reference
The simple continuant gives the value of a. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
˜continuant™. From Wordnik.com. [Temporal Parts] Reference
Then’s now with now’s then in tense continuant. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Fausto, your explanations of Middle English are hair-raising. "togeder" is simply a dialectal form, the eth (d with stroke through ascender) having died out by the 13th cent.; "ayren" is the Middle English continuant of Old English plural "ægren" (g = y), cf. modern German "Eier"; modern English "egg(s)" is of Scandinavian origin. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: Friday Middle English recipe blogging.] Reference
This compromise a, he says, is cultivated in words with a, sometimes au, before a voiceless continuant, or before a nasal followed by a voiceless stop or continuant, as in grass, half, laugh, path (also before a voiced continuant, as in paths, calves, halves, baths, when the voiced form is a variant, usually the plural, of a head form with a voiceless sound), aunt, branch, cant, dance, fancy, France, shant, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7. The Standard American Pronunciation. 2. The Vowels] Reference
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