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Initial consonant cluster /ʃw/

From Teflpedia

/ʃw/ is an initial consonant cluster that occurs rarely in English.

The word it occurs in is schwa, the English-style pronunciation of the surname Schwartz. Both are German-to-English loans.

English phonotactics strongly prefers initial consonant cluster /sw/ instead.

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