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

Quoting Chris Bates <christopher.bates@...>:

> 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!
??

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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