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> there's just one way to pronounce "S" in Finnish, whereas there are four ways to do that in English What are those four ways?
by esolyt 5y ago
> there's just one way to pronounce "S" in Finnish, whereas there are four ways to do that in English
What are those four ways?
- schoen 5y agoI think this is an orthography issue rather than a phonology issue. I did a search in cmudict and found examples! sample → /s/ treasure → /ʒ/ visible → /z/ unsure → /ʃ/ I could probably have thought of these eventually, but cmudict made it a whole lot quicker.
- schoen 5y agoOK, and it can also, rarely, be silent ("island", "debris").