Timeline for why does letter s pronounced differently in word resume and assume? [duplicate]
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| Oct 14, 2017 at 15:19 | history | closed |
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Duplicate of When to pronounce ‹s› as /z/ in the middle of words? | |
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| Oct 11, 2017 at 2:01 | comment | added | sumelic | See When to pronounce ‹s› as /z/ in the middle of words? It isn't about whether the word is from Latin or French, and it isn't totally random either. It's fairly predictable that "consume" is pronounced with /s/, because "ns" in the middle of a word is usually /ns/; the other words are a bit less predictable, but follow the tendency for single intervocalic "s" after a prefix and before a stressed vowel to represent /z/ while double "ss" represents /s/. | |
| Aug 19, 2017 at 5:34 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 19, 2017 at 5:16 | comment | added | user3169 | assume and consume are derived from Latin words, while resume and presume are derived from French words. Check a dictionary. While English has so many phonetic variations, the language a word derives from has a lot to do with the pronunciation. | |
| Aug 19, 2017 at 0:53 | comment | added | Robusto | Please do not expect English spelling to make any sense at all. Its crazines is legendary. | |
| Aug 19, 2017 at 0:32 | history | asked | zzzgoo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |