Episode 159: Elizabethan Voices
The History of English Podcast
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The Evolution of the K and G Sounds
John Hart didn't show that final development to the Z sound, but he did show that intermediate step with the Z sound. He spelled the words occasion and pleasure with a Z, which reflects the first step in the change. Many other words ending in S-I-O-N actually experienced a separate but parallel development. The same basic development also occurred in the middle of some words, like the word Pleasure.
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