"au jus" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Tom Zurinskas]

Indeed. The letter "s" is by far the most used letter in English to spell the ~zh sound as in "measure" ~mezher. But the letter "s" is 60 times more likely to spell another sound, ~s. See truespel book 4.

Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk




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