>Arne J�nsson wrote: > >> quid quaeque may have been pronounced quicquaeque by assimilation thus >> making the pronounciation considerably easier. > >Yes, I've wondered about this. It may have been pronounced thus colloquially, >but a declaimer of epic poetry might be expected to enunciate more carefully. >If the assimilation did take place, however, then add -cqu- twice to the >cacophonous clash of consonants that make up the line. > The careful enunciation could in this case mean that the declaimer pronounced the plosive with a stronger explosion, thus marking the double k-sound (as is done in some modern languages which is easily demonstrated in experimental phonetics). In the same way the two plosives in sicque and quicquid etc may have been pronounced not as two k:s but as one stronger k, and thus there would be no clash of consonants.
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