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Re: OT: Slavic name question

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Sunday, January 11, 2004, 20:12
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 06:04:53PM +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Perhaps because 'ch' is part of normal English spelling, while 'zh' is not.
Debatable. There are no native English words spelled with <zh>, but it is the standard way of representing /Z/ in, e.g., English dictionary pronunciation keys, and is generally understood to represent that sound. -Mark