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Minimal Pairs

🧠 Initial Position
- sip – zip
- seal – zeal
- sign – zine
- sock – Zoc (brand name)
- sue – zoo

πŸ”„ Medial Position
- racer – razor
- lacing – lazing
- kissing – kizzing (slang or stylized)
- messing – mezzing (rare, but used in dialects)
- passing – pausing

🏁 Final Position
- bus – buzz
- ice – eyes
- face – phase
- gross – grows
- miss – miz (used as a stylized name or informal spelling)

Sentences

- The zebra zoomed past the zany zookeepers with a zing.
- I heard a buzz from the fizzy soda near the zero-gravity zone.
- Zelda zipped her jazz jacket and took a nap near the zucchini patch.
- The wizard sneezed and dropped his puzzle of glittering gizmos.
- He loves pizza, quizzes, and bizarre zombie movies.

- A hazardous blizzard froze the lizard near the buzzing bazaar.
- She solved the last maze, avoiding every crazy trap and cozy decoy.
- The fuzzy dice rolled across the dizzy checkerboard in a daze.
- We zipped through the zone, chasing the buzzing mosquito brigade.
- Zack’s zebra and Zoe’s zucchini won the fizzy food festival.

Zeke’s Zesty Zoo Day

Zeke zoomed into the zoo with a bag of zucchini and fizzy drinks. The zebras zigzagged near the gazebo, while a zany lizard did jazzy tricks beside the buzzing bees. Zeke’s zookeeper friend, Zelda, zapped through a pile of puzzles, quizzing him on bizarre animal facts. Amid the buzz, a crazy mongoose seized a slice of pizza, leaving a trail of fuzz near the zebra zone. What a bizarre blast of zest and zoo chaos!

The Blizzard at Buzzville

In the tiny town of Buzzville, a blizzard blazed through with a hazardous zing. Residents zipped up their cozy jackets, while Zack shoveled sizzling snow near the gazebo. The local wizard, Zoro, brewed a fizzy solution to stop the stormβ€”using zinc, zippers, and a zingy chant. Amid all the buzz, a sleepy zebra snoozed beside the zany bakery, which still baked raisin and zucchini pastries despite the snow. The town stayed zippy, even in a blizzard blitz.

-SES/-ZES

- glass – glasses
- class – classes
- pass – passes
- kiss – kisses
- boss – bosses
- dress – dresses
- guess – guesses
- process – processes
- address – addresses
- success – successes

- prize – prizes
- size – sizes
- noise – noises
- rose – roses
- pose – poses
- breeze – breezes
- sneeze – sneezes
- use – uses
- excuse – excuses
- surprise – surprises