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[night vector]

Please be patient

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[warped crag]

/psi/

[bitter olive]

how positively strange

[cosmic tinsel]

It's more English that's strange in that regard

Words like psychologue, ptérodactyle, tsar, etc. are usually pronounced like in their source language in French, cause French doesn't have the restriction of no initial cluster, even if they don't exist in native words

[warped crag]

what do you mean exactly by cluster? do you exclude ones like "pr" or "cl"? or is there a more specific definition that I just don't know

or did you just mean a succession of unvoiced consonants like "pt" and "ps"

[cosmic tinsel]

no sorry i just wasn't very specific, English only has a limited inventory of allowed initial clusters, so it disallows things like "ps, pt, ts", but French doesn't, even if those clusters don't exist natively