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

Thomas R. Wier ekirais':

>> 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.
And bus/buzz, race/raise, zeal/seal, zinc/sink, gristle/grizzle. Even the
letter z itself: zed/said or zee/see.

I'm done now.

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