Keeping up with the Joneses

Guest   Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:30 pm GMT
How do you pronounce "Joneses"?

I was told by many teachers to pronounce it as it was "Jonesses" but I think it's Joneses, like the name "Jones".
Travis   Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:42 pm GMT
I myself pronounce it as ["dZo~:nzI:s], corresponding to the phonemes /"dZonzIz/; note though that most NAE-speakers will not use [s] at all here but rather [z] or [z_0], the use of [s] being rather dialect-specific.