"au jus" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Baker, John]

        Isn't "pleasure" a native English example?


John Baker


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>  There is no good way in
> English to spell the ~zh sound, the leasty prevelant sound in English
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????
"Zh" is a perfectly good way to spell the sound.

As far as it being the least prevalent sound in English, is it even an
English sound?  All the words I can think of that use it are foreign
loan words.
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