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Yes! Mr von Fong came up with an example of that in Spanish: inmoral. I'd love to see other examples. I don't think dissimilation occurs in Port.



My first thought on this was that, e.g., inmoral was the original so that it was not an example of dissimilation, but in this and other inm- examples from Spanish the assimilation had already occurred in the Latin. I'd have some trouble believing that this was a learned conceit, not unlike the s in English island or the b in doubt, so perhaps it is dissimilation. Any thoughts on that, nuncle?