/zh/ replacing /dzh/?

[Dennis R. Preston]

>Alice, say it isn't so. You can say /grazh/ for /gradzh/!

dInIs


>Nope. If I fully elide the first syllable, it would be /grazh/.
>
>Dennis R. Preston said:
>>First syllable? There are two syllables in 'garage'? Aint it /gradzh/
>>(adopting the /dzh/ spelling of the affricate used so far in this
>>discussion)?
>>
>>dInIs
>>
>>On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Alice Faber wrote:
>>
>>#Well, of course, the right way to say Elijah has neither /zh/ nor
>>#/dzh/...but I don't think I've ever heard a non-affricated English
>>#pronunciation. Garage with /dzh/ strikes me as a Britishism
>>#(Britishcism?).
>>
>>The Brits go the whole hog on anglicizing it: they stress the first
>>syllable, too:
>>
>>         ' g ae r I dZ
>>
>>rhyming with "carriage".
>>
>>-- Mark A. Mandel
>>
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740 Wells Hall A
Michigan State University
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