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

[Tom Zurinskas]

> The five most common transcription systems are given here:
> http://www.blahedo.org/ascii-ipa.html

Thanks for this site.
Which of the five does the US Government use?  I know the VOA uses none of these.  I call their type of phonetic spelling VOAspel.  No one has given me another name for it.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
See truespel.com - and the 4 truespel books plus "Occasional Poems" at authorhouse.com.



> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:01:11 -0500
> From: bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
> Subject: Re: English words beginning with  pronounced [Z]?
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Poster: Benjamin Zimmer
> Subject: Re: English words beginning with  pronounced [Z]?
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> On Jan 22, 2008 1:39 PM, Laurence Horn  wrote:
>>
>> At 10:20 AM -0800 1/22/08, Brenda Lester wrote:
>>>shouldn't it be J pronouced like ZH??
>>>
>>
>> That's what we've been using [Z] to indicate in this thread and
>> others, a voiced alveo-palatal fricative as in "rouge" or "pleasure".
>> [J] is the affricate, as in "judge". Somewhere there's a list of
>> these notations within ascii-netic transcription.
>
> The five most common transcription systems are given here:
>
> http://www.blahedo.org/ascii-ipa.html
>
> All five use [Z] for "ezh".
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> --Ben Zimmer
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