'mo = homo

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Mar 13 03:36:14 UTC 2004


>On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
>>>Which reminds me - I still want to know how 'za is pronounced.
>>>
>>
>>I'm pretty sure it rhymes with "pa" or "fa" [a long long way to go].
>>I suppose the only other option would be to rhyme it with "duh", but
>>I think the spelling pronunciation prevails.
>
>So is it /tsa/ or /za/?
>
>I find it difficult to imagine saying, "Let's get some /tsa/." What are
>typical sentences containing 'za?
>
Yours is typical, but without the affricate.  "Let's get some /za/."
Not to be confused with copping some z's, which nobody probably does
anymore.  (At least not in so many words.)

Larry



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