Re: Indo-European question

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, David Peterson wrote:

>     No, the *letter* /z/ was supposed to be pronounced [s], not [z].  There
> is no [z] sound in Spanish.

I always try to do "z" when referring to the grapheme, /z/ when referring
to the (possibly rather broad) phoneme, and [z] when referring to the
specific "phonete" (contrasting phonetic vs. phonemic).