--- rone <rone at ennui.org> wrote: > 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", Well, yes. One thing at a time. > 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. Because we don't have [E] as in "Ed" at the end of a syllable, and we don't have [e], which is really the sound here, except in the diphthong [eI] as in "hey". You could also have corrected my use of "H" for the Spanish "J". Geraldo Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com