"Houses"

[unassuming]

How is the word "houses" pronounced?

I had a co worker who pronounced the first "s" as an "s" sound. I pronounce the first "s" as a "z" sound.
I admonished him and did a workplace poll, he was the only one with the "s" sound.
How do you pronounce the word?

 

[xmontrealer]

How is the word "houses" pronounced?

I had a co worker who pronounced the first "s" as an "s" sound. I pronounce the first "s" as a "z" sound.
I admonished him and did a workplace poll, he was the only one with the "s" sound.
How do you pronounce the word?

Pick nits much?

 

[anon1]

Pick nits much?

slow news day

 

[Charlie_]

With a soft 's', like a 'z'. Many ESL pronounce it incorrectly, with a hard 's'.

 

[unassuming]

Pick nits much?

That's shack's job!

 

[curvluvr]

Why admonish him, regardless of whether English was his mothertongue or his second language?
He still got the point across. What's the big deal?
I'm pretty sure that other places in the world may prounounce it differently from your own habit.

Short answer: I pronounce it with the Z. I'm born and raised here.

 

[downbound123]

 

[eddie kerr]

How is the word "houses" pronounced?

I had a co worker who pronounced the first "s" as an "s" sound. I pronounce the first "s" as a "z" sound.
I admonished him and did a workplace poll, he was the only one with the "s" sound.
How do you pronounce the word?

Why is the word Cough pronounced Coff & the word Dough pronounced Doe??

 

[Jenesis]

S over Z here. I think. LOL. I had to say it in my head a couple times to see.

 

[onomatopoeia]

Z sound in North America, S in continental Europe, usually when English is not the speaker's mother tongue.

 

[Pleasure Hound]

English is weird, for sure.....

 

[Bagilson]

Pronounce it however the fuck you want.

 

[HumbleJoe]

How do you say the verb 'house'? As in 'we decided to house a family who lost their home'.