Re: New Try from a New Guy

Steg Belsky scripsit:

> [...] pronounce the name |Joseph| with a [z].  I've only ever heard [s]
> in that name before.  Is that because the people i know are closer to the
> Hebrew form [josef], while officially the English version actually has
> [z]?  Or does the English name itself have dialectal variants?
Variants certainly, but probably not dialectal.  [z] would be normal in
English, as in Isaac [eiz@k], but [dzous@f] actually works better for me.
However "Josephine" is [djouz@fin], definitely.

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