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Re: New Try from a New Guy

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Monday, December 16, 2002, 18:44
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. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "If he has seen farther than others, it is because he is standing on a stack of dwarves." --Mike Champion, describing Tim Berners-Lee (adapted)

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