Why are there almost no words in English containing the letter combination “zh”, despite the fact that that the sound is quite common, e.g. “measure”?

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Why are there almost no words in English containing the letter combination “zh”, despite the fact that that the sound is quite common, e.g. “measure”?

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Answer 1

Since I was a little kid, I’ve wished there was a ‘zh’ consonant blend in the English language. Would make so much sense, not to mention languages like Chinese would be be much, much easier to speak/read using pinyin characters that included the ‘zh’ blend.