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Americans would also say /ɡiːks/. No dialect of English would be likely to use /ɡiːkz/; that's not how voicing assimilation works.


I've heard a bunch of people use the Z in person and on recorded talks.


Hmm. If you remember, could you drop me a link the next time you come across this in a recorded talk? It's pretty weird with a word like geek. Something that ends with a voiced sound as in dog of course will be tend to occur with a final /z/ rather than /s/ (though word-final devoicing is a productive process, so even dogs is often realised as /dɔgs/).




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