The linguistic process of a consonant sound becoming or being pronounced as an affricate.
From 'affricate' + the noun suffix '-tion,' following standard patterns for English abstract nouns. It's a technical linguistic term.
Historical 'affrication' explains why English sounds have changed—some medieval English sounds became affricates over time, showing that even something as basic as how we pronounce letters evolves slowly over centuries.
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