The Music of Hindostan c12.62

c12.62

When two consonants meet one is assimilated to the other so as to slide into it almost imperceptibly. Accommodations such as those in *orthodok-sy* and *dog-ma*, *younk-ster* and *blag-guard*, *Sut-ton* and *Sud-bury*, *eks-tra* and *egz-ample*, and the like, have their counterparts in Sanskrit, not only in the interior of one word, but quite as commonly between the end of one and the beginning of the next. It is the tendency to weld words together in these and other ways that gives perhaps its importance, as between notes, to that other class of grace, the ‘slide’.