Re: Spelling
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 7, 2002, 21:02 |
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Nik Taylor writes:
> Michael Adams wrote:
> >
> > True about Fusion. Maybe it should be Fuzion instead?
>
> Most examples of -sion outside of -ssion are /Z@n/ is my point. Other
> examples:
>
> Abrasion (altho my dictionary claims that has /S/, but I've only heard
> it with /Z/)
> Confusion
> Lesion
> Version (altho here again my dictionary claims /S/, I have never heard
> it with /S/)
>
> While -ssion is usually /S@n/
> Accession
> Succession
> Secession
> Passion
> But Fission is generally /fIZ@n/
>
Not for me - I have /fIS@n/ (which supports your case).
> For that matter, s is often /z/ when intervocalic if not doubled, like
> "raise", "leasure", but "passing".
It's /Z/ in "leasure" for me.
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