Re: possesives in -s

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Padraic Brown wrote:
> > What's wrong with /rOs@s/?
>
> In my dialect, plural and possessive is only /s/ when adjacent to a
> voiceless consonant, like "cats", when adjacent to a vowel (including
> schwa) or a voiced consonant, it's /z/.  /rOs@s/ I would interpret as
> something like Rossus.
Is there even a dialect of English that does not do that?  I can't think
of one.  If I heard it, I might at first assume they're German or something.
Final devoicing's pretty rare in English.

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