Twix brand name. The name Twix is a portmanteau derived from 'twin biscuit sticks'. In 2014, the company introduced Twix bites. Between 2012 and 2013 the size of a standard Twix in the UK was reduced by 14%, from 58g to 50g. All Twix production for the U.S. market takes place at the Mars Chocolate North America facility in Cleveland, Tennessee. The name change from Raider to Twix is part of the plot in German Netflix TV series "Dark" where a brand new Raider wrapping from 1986 is found in 2019. A Twix bar is referred to in the Netflix series
Pre-stopped consonant Pre-stopped consonant In linguistics, pre-stopping, also known as pre-occlusion or pre-plosion, is a phonological process involving the historical or allophonic insertion of a very short stop consonant before a sonorant, such as a short before a nasal or a lateral . The resulting sounds () are called pre-stopped consonants, or sometimes pre-ploded or (in Celtic linguistics) pre-occluded consonants, although technically may be considered an occlusive/stop without the pre-occlusion. A pre-stopped consonant behaves phonologically as a single consonant. That is, like affricates and trilled affricates, the reasons for considering these sequences to be single consonants lies primarily in their behavior. Phonetically