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13 responses to “z as in seizure”

  1. There’s barely any!!

  2. -.-.-- .-. . -.- -.-. .- .... / .- / . .-. .----. --- ..- -.-- says:

    Why is it a rare spelling? It’s just a /z/ spelt word with a sound making /zh/… how is there only 2?!

    • alison says:

      I don’t know how there came to be only two words with this spelling, I didn’t design the English writing system, I’m just trying to describe its patterns. There might be other, more obscure words with this sound-spelling relationship but I didn’t find any when I went through the Macquarie Dictionary years ago.

  3. simon says:

    can’t you look in other dictionarys

    • alison says:

      It’s “dictionaries”, and no, I have a finite amount of time to do free work to help others right now. Why don’t you, and let me know if you find any?

  4. Kaley Nore says:

    WOW!!! I can’t believe there are only 2 words!
    Surely someone can think of more /z/ words than that!
    If you find more /z/ words than add them in pls.

  5. Colt Harris says:

    Brazier’s the only other one I can think of…
    https://worksheetgenius.com/word-lists/zh/
    99% of the words with the “zh” sound use it in place of “s.” Like “vision.”

    • alison says:

      Hi Kevser, yes, /ch/ and /j/ start as alveolar stops and are released as palatal fricatives (affricates) so they do belong in both alveolar and palatal columns, and the other two issues you raise are valid. The charts in this blog post aren’t ones I made up, I should make some that precisely reflect what I understand to be the sounds in General Australian English. But when will I find time?!

  6. unknown says:

    Hi Alison,
    This is not about the ‘z’ grapheme
    In the ‘s’ place isn’t unusual a word?

  7. cadie8 says:

    I actually cant believe there are only 2 /zh/ words!? That is insane!!!!!

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