"au jus" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Geoff Nathan]

Not to mention 'as you know...', 'where's your father' and similar. Of course they're probably not *underlying* /zh/, but they're certainly produced with voiced palato-alveolar fricatives all the time.

Geoffrey S. Nathan
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and Professor, Linguistics Program
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From: "Bill AMRDEC Mullins"
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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
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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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