English words beginning with <j> pronounced [Z]?

[goofy dreaming]

In Love and Death, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton pronounce "jejune" as
/Z at ZUn/, but they're being pretentious.

On Jan 21, 2008 1:11 PM, Nadia Gabriel <nadpaz3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Nadia Gabriel <nadpaz3 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      English words beginning with <j> pronounced [Z]?
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Dear all,
>
> A question out of a friend's curious brain - he is French, currently
> taking
> lessons to improve his English:
>
> Do you know of words, common word or proper names, in the English language
> that begin with the letter <j> but that are pronounced without the [d]
> sound, just the [Z] sound?
> Or, to put it another way, words where the initial <j> is pronounced as in
> French?
>
> I can't think of any!
> An advanced search in the OED Online ("Entries containing Z
> in Pronunciations") retrieves only one word: jinricksha, jinrikisha,
> *n.*<
> http://dictionary.oed.com.proxycu.wrlc.org/cgi/entry/50123824?query_type=advsearch&queryword=Z&first=1&max_to_show=10&search_spec=pron%3Aph&order=ab&return_set=entries&sort_type=alpha&result_place=6&control_no=50123824&search_id=xncX-q3erq2-7384&side=M
> >,
> from Japanese.
>
> I'd be grateful for any comments!
>  (I must add I didn't read all the article under the entry for the letter
> J,
> which also appeared in the results of my search - Wonderful OED)
>
> Thank you,
>
>  Nadia Gabriel
>  Librarian & Translator
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org