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| sebngwa3 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6170 days ago 200 posts - 217 votes  Speaks: Korean*, English | Message 1 of 21 23 October 2009 at 8:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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I knew someone who pronounced houses, fissure like houzes, fizhure
Which American accent is this? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5573 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 2 of 21 24 October 2009 at 4:39am | IP Logged | ||
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"Houses" is "houzes" in all major English dialects as far as I know (the verb "to house" is pronounced "houze" as well). I know "fissure" is pronounced "fizhure" by all kinds of Americans and other English speakers; I don't think it's something confined to a particular region. The "s", "z", "sh" and "zh" sounds are pretty uniform across English dialects. The only exception I can think of where there is a regional difference is words like "version", "immersion" and "Persia", which tend to be pronounced with an unvoiced "sh" sound in the U.K. but a voiced "zh" sound in the U.S. (though I have heard Britons use the voiced sound too). Edited by Levi on 24 October 2009 at 4:43am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| maaku Senior Member United States Joined 5580 days ago 359 posts - 562 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 21 24 October 2009 at 5:06am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm from California and I pronounce it that way... it's news to me if that's not standard
American English. But as someone pointed out elsewhere, asking natives to explain their language is never a good idea :) Edited by maaku on 24 October 2009 at 5:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6774 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 4 of 21 24 October 2009 at 6:17am | IP Logged | ||
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Like Levi said, those are the standard and correct pronunciations of "houses" and "fissure" in all English dialects I've
heard. As a side note, however, the vowel diphthong in "house" the verb is different from "house" the noun in Canadian English (my own dialect) and several American dialects. This is the phenomenon known as "Canadian raising". 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5871 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 5 of 21 24 October 2009 at 8:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would pronounce "fissure" as "fisher". The zh pronunciation sounds weird to me.
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| sebngwa3 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6170 days ago 200 posts - 217 votes Speaks: Korean*, English | Message 6 of 21 24 October 2009 at 8:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6209 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 7 of 21 25 October 2009 at 11:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I pronounce "fissure" as "fizhure," and I have never heard any other pronunciation, but the first "s" in "houses" could
be pronounced as /s/ or /z/, neither sounds weird to me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6665 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 8 of 21 26 October 2009 at 5:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm from northern Ohio, and I pronounce "fissure" just like "fisher."
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