--- Mark A Mandel <mam at theworld.com> wrote: > But that list -- at least the first time it came out > -- had some > problems, such as describing the sound of "jh" as... > "jh", which has no > standard, normal, usual, conventional, or accepted > sound for > English-speakers. Steve's since made it clear that > it's supposed to be > "zh" -- that is, the sound of the "s" in "pleasure" > -- and IIRC has > fixed it in subsequent editions. > > But "dz" as "dz" is perfectly reasonable to me. > > -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, > Orthoepist, and > Philological Busybody > a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel Never personally had a problem jhereg, but are you saying dzur is pronounced exactly like it's spelled? ===== Doc www.toubib.us __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com