"fission" with -zh-?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/15/2011 04:22 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>So I've always assumed, as with the shift from penult to ult stress
>in "covert" on the model of "overt".  Something there is that likes a
>minimal pair.  (Then there's the pronunciation of "transition" to
>rhyme with "incision"...)

Larry, what is the minimal pair something likes here?

Joel

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