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There’s barely any!!
Correct! It’s a very rare spelling.
Why is it a rare spelling? It’s just a /z/ spelt word with a sound making /zh/… how is there only 2?!
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.
can’t you look in other dictionarys
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?
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.
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.”
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?!
Hi Alison,
This is not about the ‘z’ grapheme
In the ‘s’ place isn’t unusual a word?
The spelling lists on this website are organised by phoneme-grapheme correspondences, not just graphemes. ‘Unusual’ is on this list: https://www.spelfabet.com.au/spelling-lists/sorted-by-sound/zh/s-as-in-pleasure/
I actually cant believe there are only 2 /zh/ words!? That is insane!!!!!
There are heaps more but they aren’t spelt with letter z, see https://www.spelfabet.com.au/spelling-lists/sorted-by-sound/zh/