kanth  +  114470 Sat, 02 Jul 05 01:42 AM hi all I am a new user to this forum , all of a sudden when i was searching for someother stuff i found this and it seems very helpful. And i always foudn difficulty in pronouncing the words ending like "sion", egession is it something to do with tongue movement , any guidance would be greatly helpful. Thanks Naveen kanth Joined on Fri, Jul 1 2005 New Member 01

	CalifJim  +  117148 Mon, 11 Jul 05 04:05 AM With one "s", as in "vision", the "si" forms the voiced sound sometimes shown as "zh" or as "Z". With the double "ss", as in "impression", the "ssi" forms the unvoiced sound usually shown as "sh" or as "S". "vision" = /viZ^n/ "impression" = /impreS^n/ /^/ represents any of several indeterminate central vowel sounds which typically occur in unstressed syllables in English.  In these, use the /i/ or /u/ (as in "bit" or "but") or anything in between for the /^/. The /S/ and /Z/ are produced the same way except for the voicing of /Z/.  The tongue is held more forward and curled than for /s/ or /z/ and the lips are more rounded. These are difficult to describe - hope this helped! Jim CalifJim Joined on Mon, Aug 2 2004 California Veteran Member 22,465 "There are no facts, only interpretations" - Nietzsche Vowels