Re: New Try from a New Guy

On Sunday 15 December 2002 3:17 pm, Steg Belsky wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 20:27:56 +0100 Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>
>
> writes:
> > --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Michael David Martin <mdmartin@i...>
> > wrote:
> > Do /s/ and /T/ have [z] and [D] as allophones, or are they
> > always [s] and [T]?
> >
> > -- Christian Thalmann
>
> -
>
> Talking about /s/ being realized as [z]... Last night me and a few
> friends watched the video version of the musical "Joseph and the Amazing
> Technicolor Dreamcoat", and i was surprised to hear every single person
> in it pronounce the name |Joseph| with a [z].  I've only ever heard [s]
> in that name before.  Is that because the people i know are closer to the
> Hebrew form [josef], while officially the English version actually has
> [z]?  Or does the English name itself have dialectal variants?
>

Hmm, well, being a Joseph myself, I would indeed say that [dZ@uzIf] is the
normal(British) pronounciation.  [dZ@usIf] is possible as well, but less
common.

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