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

[Paul Johnston]

So this suggests that the stressed vowel (as I'd expect, as in Hart,
Bullokar or Gil) was [ae:] or [a:], maybe as high as [E:], but surely
not [e:] or [ej] yet.

Paul Johnston

On Jan 22, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Charles Doyle wrote:

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> And in Sir John Harrington's _Metamorphosis of Ajax_, the name
> "Ajax" is pronounced in such a way as to be punningly homophonous
> with "a jakes" (that is, 'a privy').
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> --Charlie
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>> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:31:59 -0500
>> From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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>> At 8:20 AM -0500 1/22/08, Dennis Preston wrote:
>>> LH,
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>>> I believe the recommended Shakespearian version was /Jekwiz/ not /
>>> Jakwiz/.
>>>
>>> dInIs
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>> Right; I knew mine didn't sound quite right vocalically, but I was
>> focusing on the consonants.
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>> LH
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