On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Toubib wrote: #--- Mark A Mandel <mam at theworld.com> wrote: [...] #> But "dz" as "dz" is perfectly reasonable to me. # #Never personally had a problem jhereg, but are you #saying dzur is pronounced exactly like it's spelled? Well, *I* pronounce it exactly as it's spelled, with the "ur" as in "fur". -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel http://cracksandshards.com a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website