Sibilant voicing in American English

[Robert Orr]

I first heard "equation " in 1968, from a maths teacher
I remember my Mum being horrified.

The same year I also heard one speaker consistently refer to the present 
month with a voiced sibilant.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kim Braithwaite" <kbtrans at COX.NET>
To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 1:29 AM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Sibilant voicing in American English


> Equation comes to mind, assuming the voicing is recent. But maybe you 
> already have that. Haven't heard "fision" myself. Interesting phenomenon.
>
> Mr Kim Braithwaite, Translator
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM>
> To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 9:17 PM
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Sibilant voicing in American English
>
>
> Dear friends,
>
> I've been putting together a collection of words where the sibilants /s/
> and /ʃ/ ("sh") have recently become voiced in American English.
>
> Here are a few examples (sorry if they make you wince):
> cazhmere (wool)
> (nuclear) fision
>
> Obviously, "possess" (cf. French posseder) has had a /z/ for a long
> time, but I don't know how long; I'm interested in 20th-century or later
> shifts.
>
> Isolated morphemes seem to be more susceptible; paradigms like
> fishes/fished/fishing are apparently immune.
>
> Can anyone add to my collection?
>
> Private replies welcome, all replies accepted.
>
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