Michael Everson scripsit:

> Seizure and (be)sieger?

The context of my original remark appears to have been lost. Instances
of [Z] that are transparently derived from /zj/ are out of the case.
The issue is to find a contrast between [dZ] and [Z] where the latter
could *not* be analyzed as /zj/.

The nearest thing to a minimal pair I've found so far in my idiolect is
page [dZ] and beige [Z].

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