At 07:51 -0400 2004-05-28, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>You acknowledge that these lexical items are from other languages! Thus
>the alien sounds in them are not part of English.

Different from the original point, though. The
sound "zh" in "measure" is an import into
English. Some dialects of English have [x]. In my
own dialect I use [ç] in words like "human"
['çjum@...].


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