Re: IPA griefs

>From: Adrian Morgan <morg0072@...>
>Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:00:54 +0930
>
>Danny Wier wrote:
>
> > /Z/:
> > English "viSIon", "leiSure", "garaGE"
>
>Interesting. I've never noticed an English speaker use /Z/ instead of
>/dZ/ in "garage" before.
It is quite common, actually the norm for speakers under, say, 40 in Texas
from which both Danny and I hail.


Adam

>
>/'vIZ@n/     /leZ@/     /'g&Ra:dZ/
>
>--
>web.       | Here and there I like to preserve a few islands of sanity
>netyp.com/ | within the vast sea of absurdity which is my mind.
>member/    | After all, you can't survive as an eight foot tall
>dragon     | flesh eating dragon if you've got no concept of reality.
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