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Q: Why do reiß and reis not have the same phonemes when they are pronounced the same?

Jacob Lee-HartSorry if this is very basic but I am very new to this area of study. Reiß and reis are two words that in Hochdeutsch have the same pronunciation - so why is it that the final phoneme in each word is different? In reiß it is /s/ and in reis it is /z/. Is there some system whereby words retain the ...

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