Jerry Friedman writes: "Hey-sus"! There's no [z] sound in most dialects of Spanish except before a voiced consonant (as in "machismo", at least in American Spanish). I'm sure you mean "Heh-SUS", since the Spanish 'e' is pronounced 'eh', not 'ey', and i'd love to find out how this little nugget has become common usage in the Anglophone world. rone -- Remember Remember It's tilted