Re: THEORY: language and the brain [Interesting article]

What is the difference between gristle and grizzle? They feel like one
word to me... I might give it two meanings but I don't think in my
speech I differentiate them by the voicing of the s in the first and the
z in the second, and offhand I can't remember what the difference is lol.

>Thomas R. Wier ekirais':
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>>>I would not worry about devoicing z in English! We don't contrast s and
>>>z too much I think since they used to be allophones in English, and
>>>while it is more usual to hear z and it might give you a bit of an
>>>accent saying s instead, most of the time it wouldn't cause you to be
>>>misunderstood or give you too much of an accent!
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>>These "odd" pairs number in the hudreds, if not the thousands:
>>zap/sap, sip/zip, sin/zen (in my dialect), sap/zap, sue/zoo, to
>>name just a few.
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>And bus/buzz, race/raise, zeal/seal, zinc/sink, gristle/grizzle. Even the
>letter z itself: zed/said or zee/see.
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>I'm done now.
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