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Ah, so something more like "Tezh"! Which of course would make sense to Ivan and his Russian-derived phonemes. Added bonus, it also sounds much better to me than the harder "Tedge." :D Thanks much!
And now I know how to pronounce Bujold correctly! Here are some English words with the 'zh' sound, courtesy of the internet: garage, beige, lesion, leisure, seizure. http://english.stackexchange.com/ques...
How to pronounce the "J" sound varies across languages. In normal Hebrew it is not possible to say "Joanna" with that hard-G sound. It is more like Yohanna.
The soft j sound abounds, but may not be spelled with a j. Like lingerie, measure, erosion, seizure.
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Ah, so something more like "Tezh"! Which of course would make sense to Ivan and his Russian-derived phonemes. Added bonus, it also sounds much better to me than the harder "Tedge." :D Thanks much!
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And now I know how to pronounce Bujold correctly! Here are some English words with the 'zh' sound, courtesy of the internet: garage, beige, lesion, leisure, seizure. http://english.stackexchange.com/ques...
How to pronounce the "J" sound varies across languages. In normal Hebrew it is not possible to say "Joanna" with that hard-G sound. It is more like Yohanna.
The soft j sound abounds, but may not be spelled with a j. Like lingerie, measure, erosion, seizure.
