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    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      Are you my aunt? That’s exactly how she says geese. Her husband says geese as “gays” with a sibilant s rather than the hard s.

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        8 months ago

        … how do you mean? S’s are sibilants in every variation I know if not silent like in French.

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          8 months ago

          I’m three decades away from my last class, but I thought that the ess sound than an s makes is called a sibilant, where the z sound it makes isn’t.

          Most people using the word “gays” will have it sound like gayz, or the word gaze. His is that sibilant s like in hissing