Hist Humor on Instagram: "This viral clip features a woman jokingly replacing every "S" sound with a "Z" sound while ordering at a fast-food drive-thru. ​The Subject The speaker utilizes a phonetic substitution technique, consistently swapping the voiceless alveolar fricative /s/ for its voiced counterpart /z/. ​The Mechanism By vibrating the vocal cords during the articulation of sibilant sounds, the speaker creates a "buzzing" effect. This transformation is applied to nouns, adjectives, and fu

Pronunciation Studio on Instagram: "/h/ is normally considered a VOICELESS GLOTTAL FRICATIVE in English pronunciation. However, it is sometimes voiced [ɦ] where it appears between two vowel sounds in fast speech. If you compare the /h/ in HEAD and AHEAD, you might notice voicing on the second word, but not on the first. In this video I cover three points related to this sound: - Pronunciation of [ɦ] - Comparison with [h] - H dropping You may have never noticed it, but do you think you use this v