Re: USAGE: -i/yse vs -i/yze in England (and what the heck, NZ too).
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 15, 2001, 14:22 |
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Quoting SuomenkieliMaa <suomenkieli@...>:
> > Then again, I find "cozy" really annoying (instead
> > of British "cosy"). What a mess.
>
> The former is the Americanized spelling of the latter.
> I'm the other way, I find "cosy" really annoying, as
> the word has a definite z sound (at least in my own
> dialect).
The question is not what the pronunciation is; everyone
agrees that that fricative is a voiced [z]. The
question is whether people want to spell the word
as pronounced, or spell it as they find esthetically
pleasing.
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