/zh/ replacing /dzh/?

[Alice Faber]

Nope. But occasionally, under duress and the influence of a glass of
wine, I might conceivably could say /gradzh/ for /grazh/.

Dennis R. Preston said:
>>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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>>
>>
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>Dennis R. Preston
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>Department of Linguistics and Languages
>740 Wells Hall A
>Michigan State University
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>Office - (517) 353-0740
>Fax - (517) 432-2736


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