/zh/ replacing /dzh/?

[FRITZ JUENGLING]

>Well, of course, the right way to say Elijah has neither /zh/ nor
>/dzh/...

Well, what is the 'right' way?

>but I don't think I've ever heard a non-affricated English
>pronunciation. Garage with /dzh/ strikes me as a Britishism
>("Britishcism?).

GaraZH has always sounded like some affectation. I can see pronouncing 'liege' with  ZH; maybe the speaker is trying to sound more French. The Normans had lieges and so on.  So, with respect to those old social  classes... However, the garage hardly seems to be the place to be puttin' on airs.  When I hear some hick from Indiana say 'garazh' I snicker.
BTW, no one (at least that I have seen) has mentioned the Taj Mahal. TaJ or TaZH?
Fritz Juengling
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