"au jus" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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So it is, as are leisure, treasure, brazier, and Hoosier.

I stand (or sit, as the case may be) corrected.  I should think longer
and post shorter.

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>         Isn't "pleasure" a native English example?
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> 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.
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> 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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