/zh/ replacing /dzh/?

[Mandy Adkins]

I say /garazh/.
Mandy

Quoting "Dennis R. Preston" <preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU>:

> 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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