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To add even more confusion, in my sort-of Philly accent, street is pronounced [ˈʃtɹit]. My uneducated guess on /ʒ/ is that /dʒ/ is the most common way of encou
by xxpor 7y ago
To add even more confusion, in my sort-of Philly accent, street is pronounced [ˈʃtɹit].
My uneducated guess on /ʒ/ is that /dʒ/ is the most common way of encountering it, so people aren't comfortable separating it out, even though it's still common. It probably doesn't help that the usual transcription is zh which basically doesn't exist in native English words.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> It probably doesn't help that the usual transcription is zh which basically doesn't exist in native English words. Depends what you mean by "the usual transcription". The usual spelling in English is "s" followed by i or u. (As in "usual" / "measure" / "vision" / etc. etc. etc. etc.) "Zh" is the standard transcription for Russian. The same sound in Chinese is today normally transcribed "r", because that is the letter assigned to it by China's official Romanized orthography, Hanyu pinyin[1]. In Wade-Giles, it was transcribed "j". [1] The pinyin "r" (and the Wade-Giles "j") can represent a sound anywhere along the continuum between what an English speaker would perceive as the two distinct sounds /ʒ/ and /ɹ/. (The "s" and the "r" in "measure".)