John Cowan <cowan at ccil dot org> wrote:
>>> The notion that "rouge" is underlyingly /ruzj/ is absurd.
>>
>> Obviously.
>
> The notion that "vision" is underlyingly /vIzj@.../ is far less absurd.
Regardless of origin, I would consider anyone who actually pronounces
"vision" as /vIzj@.../ or "measure" as /mEzj@.../ to be speaking an
unusually stilted dialect of English.
I'm currently reviewing someone's constructed phonemic alphabet,
intended for English, and I plan to call him on the fact that there is
no letter for /Z/.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/