Guess nobody's free to play.
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2024
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Okay, so geas isn't a word commonly spoken.
So, most people run into it via some branch of fantasy, be it d&d or books.
So, how did any of you guys pronounce it in your head before you looked it up?
Edit: ffs, should I say "so" again, or what? Never commente when brain dead, folks.
Like someone with a deep US Southern accent saying geese. Gee-uhs.
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.
.... how do you mean? S's are sibilants in every variation I know if not silent like in French.
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
You make a good point about the voicing distinction that I was unsure of, so I looked it up. According to clearly the most authoritative source on the internet, [s] and [z] are both "hissing" sibilants.
See? That's what getting old does to you, you forget shit left and right, or remember it wrong. I always recommend not getting old, just stop at 40.
Seriously though, thanks for the correction.