Consonant combinations in English phonetics

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[zh] -g -zh mirage, garage,
beige, rouge;
vision, fusion,
Asia, usual,
visual, measure,
pleasure;
[ts] -z ts pizza, Mozart,
Nazi, waltz;
[kw] -q (qu) kw quality, question,
quite, quote,
equal, require;
[sk] -sc, -sch, sk school, scholar,
scheme, schedule;
scan, scandal,
scare, score,
Scotch, scuba;
[ks] -x ks exercise,
exchange, expect,
ex-wife, axis, fix,
relax;
[gz] -x gz exam, exact,
executive, exert,
exist, exit, exult;
[gw] -gu gw language,
linguistics,
Guatemala,
Nicaragua;