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Re:Interactive IPA Chart by esolyt on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:14PM (#27071713)
> there's just one way to pronounce "S" in Finnish, whereas there are four ways to do that in English

What are those four ways?

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Re:Interactive IPA Chart by schoen on Friday May 07, 2021 @12:34AM (#27072159)
I think this is an orthography issue rather than a phonology issue.

I did a search in cmudict and found examples!

sample → /s/

treasure → /ʒ/

visible → /z/

unsure → /ʃ/

I could probably have thought of these eventually, but cmudict made it a whole lot quicker.

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Re:Interactive IPA Chart by schoen on Friday May 07, 2021 @02:41AM (#27072985)
OK, and it can also, rarely, be silent ("island", "debris").
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