Re: syllable importance

Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:

> At 14:59 19.2.2004, Steg Belsky wrote:
>
>> Interesting... because "frazbazzlest" sounds perfectly fine to me.  To
>> be specific, it sounds like some silly (but perfectly legal)
>> pseudo-HipHop adjective in a television commercial.  "It's the
>> frazbazzlest!"
>>
>>
>> -Stephen (Steg)
>>  "shizzle my nizzle"
>
>
> Is it only I who tend to read _zz_ as /ts/ even in
> an English context?  Too much Italian in my backpack
> I'm sure.
>
>
I doubt a native English speaker would read it as such, but an Italian
could well, I'm sure, as could a foreigner who studied Italian, or even
German.