S and Z: 35 Common Words Where S Needs to Sound Like Z

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The Letter S can be confusing. Sometimes it sounds like /s/, sometimes it sounds like /z/. It’s hard to know when to use which sound and the truth is, sometimes it matters WAY more than others. In this lesson you’ll learn 35 common words where your S definitely needs to sound like a Z.
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Help the listener in to compare to
Between the s sounds or z sound.
Because to there's a lot of mixing
Or the confusing with these words .especially when the quickly linking to words.

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Great video as always. I know that English is not a phonetic language, but it would be a lot easier if the words you mentioned that really need to be pronounced with a "z" were spelt with a "z" instead.
Imagine the word busy spelt in the dictionary as "buzy". Going even further an replacing the "y" with the "ee" and the "u" with "ih" sound so it becomes "bizee".
It looks so weird seeing it spelt like that. I wonder if we ever get used to if all the words in the dictionary were suddenly replaced with the way it was meant to be spelt.

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