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You weren't. ;) Both are correct.

"Во флоте" is listed in the dictionaries as 'standard', while "на флоте" is considered to be special/professional (used by seamen themselves). But in fact both...

Your variant was scary. )

Try to ask different major questions (cases, word order, explanation of a certain phrase) in different topics. You'll get more answers that way and it helps to keep a semblance of order in our...

Oh, ok. I see now.
But I was trying to find some pattern apart from that. Definitely there must be some rule, but I'm afraid, Russian native speakers can't help with it, because it comes to us...

Duh! Have you seen my example? :roll: All words begin with two consonants:


AND I told it. :) It seems you didn't read my post properly.

I've never considered that before, but I think your first assumption about the role of "letter clusters" is right, because additional "o" doesn't necessarily appears before words, which begin with...