"fission" with -zh-?

[Tom Zurinskas]

In thefreedictionary.com, fission is pronounced ~fishin not ~fizhin for both UK and USA as well as for the clicked speaker icon next to the word. It is foespeld (fshn) which doesn't show the special symbols in plain text. I think I would say ~fizhin myself.

Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, then Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 9.
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> At 4:05 PM -0400 3/15/11, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >"Fizhion" is what they've been saying on the news for years and years. I
> >suppose some still say "fission," but they must be a real minority.
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> >JL
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> We're a proud minority, we happy few. Besides,
> we can pun on "Gone Fission", which those fizhion
> folks can't.
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> LH
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> >On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> >> > At 12:11 PM -0700 3/15/11, geoffrey nunberg wrote:
> >> >>Listening to some nuclear energy experts talking about Japan on the
> >> >>radio this morning, I was led to wonder whether  "fission" is the
> >> >>only English word in which orthographic [Vssion] can be pronounced
> >> >>with a voiced fricative. When I checked with my graduate students, I
> >> >>was surprised to find that that's the pronunciation used by all but
> >> >>one of them (and the one is from S. Africa). If so, it must be by
> >> >>analogy with "fusion," right?
> >> >>
> >> >>Geoff
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> >> > So I've always assumed, as with the shift from penult to ult stress
> >> > in "covert" on the model of "overt". Â Something there is that likes a
> >> > minimal pair. Â (Then there's the pronunciation of "transition" to
> >> > rhyme with "incision"...)
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