/zh/ replacing /dzh/?

[Herbert Stahlke]

When I first started teaching English to Hoosiers in 1980, I had a bonehead
English class (I think that's morphed into "developmental" English since.)
In one of the sets of essays, I ran across the spelling "graudge" and
blanked completely.  I put it on the board the next morning and asked the
class what it was.  There was a near unanimous laugh and statement, "That's
where you park your car--in the graudge!"  Nothing like ignorant English
professors to bolster the egos of bonehead English students.

Herb

> >Score one.
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> >  >You'd better call them hicks Hoosiers.
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> >Pronounced 'hoojer' of course!
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> >Fritz
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> >Fritz must be from one of them
> >places that ain't got no hicks.
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> >dInIs
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> >>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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> Dennis R. Preston
> Professor of Linguistics
> Department of Linguistics and Languages
> 740 Wells Hall A
> Michigan State University
> East Lansing, MI 48824-1027 USA
> Office - (517) 353-0740
> Fax - (517) 432-2736
>