Consonants /g/ versus /ʒ/, 1 pair     [megameasure.html]

The spelling of /g/ is <g>. The /ʒ/ sound is spelled <su>.

The contrast is between a stop and a fricative, both voiced but well separated in the mouth. It is unlikely to cause a problem.

The /g/ sound can occur in any position in the syllable, but /ʒ/ only occurs finally or intervocalically, other than in foreign names or loan words such as gendarme. /ʒ/ is in any case a very rare phoneme, found in only 334 words in the source dictionary.

The figures for the mean density and semantic loading are not worth calculating.

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John Higgins, Shaftesbury, January 2010
updated Chiang Mai, 2024