Quite. I said a VOICED 's', which is the 'z' sound. To understand what that means, try hissing a long 's' sound, but speak while you're doing it. If you're not sure how to do that, try singing it. When you say 's' with your voice going at the same time, it comes out like a 'z' sound. Or, actually, not LIKE a 'z' sound; it IS a 'z' sound.
In the same way, 'v' is a voiced 'f', 'zh' is a voiced 'sh' and 'th' is a voiced 'th'. (To put that last one another way, the 'th' sound in "this" is the voiced version of the 'th' sound in "thin".) Likewise, 'b', 'd' and the hard 'g' sound are the voiced equivalents of 'p', 't' and 'k'. The soft 'g' (the way Americans most often pronounce 'j', or 'dzh') is a voiced 'ch' or 'tsh'. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Darwinists talking about nature's "purpose", post-structuralists acting as if life had meaning, relativists making value judgments, nihilists living as if they actually existed; the world is full of these sorts of people. "Their hearts refute a hundred times their mind's conceit." -Lilliputin at http://www.cslewis.com/discussion, 2005-05-22 */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Steve Thompson Sent: Friday, March 17, 2023 17:04 In American English that is not entirely the case. We do not say Sebra for Zebra, nor do we say Sulu for Zulu. The distinction may be slight, but there is a difference. Just say'n'. --- On 3/17/2023 4:34 PM, Bob Bridges wrote: > In English the letter 'z' is a voiced 's'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
