Muddy phonetics

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Muddy Phonetics is a new field of linguistics meant to cross-check developments of related languages in that it tracks down phonetic changes over time based on the difference in phonetic environments provided by the languages concerned.

For example, the German word "schlummer" appears in English as "slumber". However, this is a case of cognate terms, not loan words. Yet when "schlummer" is pronounced by English native speakers as /shlammer/ then misunderstandings are bound to arise in newly formed compound words based on the loan words.