"zh" vs. "j". Are these pronounced in the same way?
2012年10月8日 · Short answer: "zh" and "j" are not pronounced in the same way. Using the International Phonetic Alphabet, the "zh" digraph would be transcribed as , while the "j" letter …
Why is the zh (ʒ) sound so infrequent in English?
2021年3月28日 · I've always heard that the "zh" (ʒ) sound (e.g. in "vision", "usually") was an uncommon sound in the English language. A quick Google search returns multiple results ( …
Are there many -tion words that sound like 'vision'?
2015年2月21日 · Most significantly to the point of the OP's original question, none of the a through c words in WS2's list carries the sound zh at the beginning of the final syllable. [ One …
't' pronounced as 'ch' - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
As noted by John Lawler, the consonant change is due to an historic intrusive "y" sound. This "y" intruded only slightly in the dialects that formed most North American dialects, thus the vast …
pronunciation - What's the rule for pronouncing “’s” as /z/ or /s ...
2016年2月18日 · If the final sound in the base of the word is voiced, we use the voiced alveolar sibilant /z/. If the last sound in the base is an unvoiced consonant, we use /s/. However, if the …
What rules of English allow the first t in “patient” to make an sh …
The /ʃ/ sound can be spelled eleven ways in English: shirt, sugar, chute, action, issue, ocean, conscious, mansion, schwa, anxious, and special. Some speakers of English do not use /ʃ/ in …
pronunciation - TH sound, is it continuant or stop? - English …
It is a rare sound in the world's languages, so most language leaners of English have trouble pronouncing it and attempt to approximate it by the fricatives s/z or the stop t/d. There are …
How to spell "the youzhe" as in the abbreviation of "the usual"
2011年12月17日 · Yeah, there doesn't seem to be a standard way of spelling the word-final /ʒ/ sound in English, since normally it only occurs word-internally (usual, pleasure, measure, etc). …
Is the D in words like Fridge and Bridge silent?
2022年10月25日 · And if it was just "frig", you'd expect it to be pronounced like "sprig", with a so-called hard G. Thus it's likely that the spellers of English chose "dg" to be a double consonant …
Proper/official pronunciation of “conch” - English Language
Hearing conch pronounced like church somehow makes it sound “American”, as though the speaker is less educated, similar to when (and I’ve only ever heard Americans pronounce it …