"au jus" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Tom Zurinskas]

I guess he could have detailed the word "luger" (as someone who luges?) a little "cleaner" (something that cleans?) so I could better (someone who bets?) focus on my reply a little "closer" (someone who closes?).  "Luger" would be ~luezher (one who luges ~luzhiz)
Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
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> On Jan 27, 2012, at 1:57 AM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
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> > In truespel as heard by clicking the speaker icon at thefreedictionary.com "luge" is ~luezh and "luger" is ~lueger
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> Um, I believe the latter is for the word referring to the gun of that name, not to someone who luges.
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> LH
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> > Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
> > See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk
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> >> How would you spell "luge" and "luger", Tom?
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> >> VS-)
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> >> PS: Can we add casual and exposure to the list, along with seizure,
> >> occasion/occasional, lesion, collision, precision, elision, erosion,
> >> engine? All but "casual" and "elision" had migrated from French
> >> complete with the [Z]. On the other hand, I was surprised to find the
> >> OED list fissure and fission with [S] rather than [Z], thus making
> >> fissure homonymous with fisher. From physicists--and physics
> >> students--I've heard it, most of my life, as [Z]. But I checked with a
> >> couple of "informants" and they do differentiate between fissure and
> >> fisher, although it involves un-English lengthening of the [S]. Are
> >> there any other English words (not necessarily originating in English in
> >> some form) that involve using [SS] in the middle? Another one that I
> >> always hear more vocalized than dictionaries list it is torsion.
> >>
> >> Another anomaly is cringe--OED lists both [Z] and [dZ] variants for
> >> British, but only [dZ] for US. Hinge, Fringe, lunge, binge, singe and
> >> linge all have /only/ [dZ] listed. Range is like cringe, but grange and
> >> derange(d/ment) are like the rest. I'll let you figure out which way
> >> mange/mangy fall (from French!--but so is derangement).
> >>
> >> Another odd cluster: artesian, Malaysian, Malthusian and Cartesian,
> >> although the last three differ between US and UK (and even within US and
> >> UK). Transient is listed in OED with [s], [z], [S] and [Z], not to
> >> mention vowel variations. The point is not to find all the instances
> >> (oh, look! I missed "illusion"!), but to dismiss the idea that the sound
> >> is particularly unusual. And who is to say that "Anglo-Norman" is not
> >> "English"?
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> >> On 1/25/2012 11:46 PM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
> >>> Indeed. The letter "s" is by far the most used letter in English to spell the ~zh sound as in "measure" ~mezher. But the letter "s" is 60 times more likely to spell another sound, ~s. See truespel book 4.
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