I know it's not exactly literature, but linguistics. I thought you could help me with this, though.
Natives speakers, if you say:
>“There’s no way we can police it”
Is that pronounced /polis it/ or /poliz it/?
What if you say:
>"Pet’s at the party"
Do you say “peetz at the party” or “peets at the party”? I am inclined to say it’s the later, but because ‘is’ is always ‘iz’ I am not sure whether that remains when contracted, or whether it follows the rule that the 's' carries on whatever sound it is preceded by.
Wait, what? "Peets"? Why the hell would I make an -ee sound when pronouncing the word pet?
Ryder Jenkins
Sorry, I meant to say "Pete" but the autocorrect changed it to "Pet", that's why the transcription is "peet"
Grayson Diaz
The term that you're looking for is 'the voicing of intervocalic "s"'.
Remember that English also has stress, and the plual ending is never stressed. Voicing does not occur in unstressed syllables. So the 's' in both your examples keeps its 's' sound, not 'z'.
It does occur in words like 'Islam', pronounced 'izlam' though; which Muslims hate. (If you take notice, they're always careful to say 'isslam'.)
Elijah Davis
>“There’s no way we can police it” /polis it/ definitely, probably because police isn't a very commonly used verb.
>"Pete’s at the party" That one's kind of a toss up. If it's said quickly enough that z can sneak in. I'd go with the latter.
Jaxon Fisher
I'd go with the latter; even quickly pronounced, the 's' sound remains.
Ah, I see. So in addendum, the 's' is still not 'intervocalic' since there is a slight pause between the 's' and the 'a', and so will still/should be pronounced as 's'.
Isaac Cox
* The former: 's'.
Grayson Watson
>the plual ending is never stressed
But I thought 'buses' would be /busiz/?
Aiden Gray
english is a fucked up language, you literally cannot sing properly in english
find me a good opera in english
stick to a romance language, or even german
Juan Miller
I say it /busəs/.
The voice box does not rattle, hence an unvoiced 's'.
Jordan Martinez
In everyday language say busiz for what it's worth. I think this also might depend on regional accents. What accent are you trying to emulate?
No such thing as 'Standard UK' accent. You probably mean 'Home Counties English' or 'posh southern'.
Justin Sanders
Burger is american
Henry Wood
Twinkle, twinkle, little star How I wonder what you are Up above the world so high Like a diamond in the sky Twinkle, twinkle little star How I wonder what you are
When the blazing sun is gone When he nothing shines upon Then you show your little light Twinkle, twinkle, all the night Twinkle, twinkle, little star How I wonder what you are
Kevin Bailey
>english is a fucked up language Success breeds jealousy.
Take note of the language you're writing in right now, fuccboi.
Joseph Howard
With "Pet's" I reckon it's phonologically conditioned and with /t/ being unvoiced you'd get an /s/ sound.
Anthony Bailey
Germans are faggot barbarians who can't speak civilised tongues
Jaxson James
it's a bus[schwa]z, only the z is not as significantly voiced, as it is at the end of the word. The basic form of english plural is [z],
