| Why do some words roll off the tongue, whereas others cause breaks in speech?

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For example:

Break: ABCDEFGHIJK
Roll-Off: LMNOP

You can say “LMNOP” much faster, because it “rolls off the tongue”. This is the first example I could think of.

Why does this happen?

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Maybe it’s because of how easy it is to pronounce, kind of like the other comment said. For the second one it’s almost like you’re saying a word called ‘elemenope’, which has a lot of vowels mixed in with consonants making it easier to say. The first one is mainly just a bunch of consonants which you kind of have to say separately if that makes sense, so maybe that’s why it takes more time. They don’t flow together like the other one with a lot of vowels in it’s pronunciation does.

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