hard words on TV! Part deux

[Charles Doyle]

I have never been aware of "Jesus" being pronounced with a final [z] by anybody! Unlike President Bush, I'm from Texas--and my parents and other forebears were conservative and evangelical Christians. Still . . . .

OED gives only the [-s] pronunciation.

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 18:13:58 -0400
>From: James Harbeck <jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA>
>Subject: Re: hard words on TV! Part deux
>
>Although I don't have data on GWB's pronunciation of "Jesus," I know that in many more conservative and evangelical Christian circles (such as he often frequents), it is pronounced with the final fricative voiceless, rather than voiced as most other Anglophones would have it. That's not a plural, of course, but a separate phenomenon with the same result. I don't know just why this is the
 case.
>
>--
>Ciao, James.
>james at harbeck.ca

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