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ʃ
Words with an obvious ʃ sound
ship, sheep, shall, shan't, shape, shell, shed, shirt, shoe, shopping, show, shut
fish, ash, trash, stash, rubbish, fashion, polish, astonish, relish
Words with a surprise ʃ sound
station, motion, emotion, devotion, Alsatian, revolution, insatiable
delicious, precious, suspicious, atrocious, fallacious, vicious
conscious, conscience, fascist, crescendo
version, diversion, extraversion (but not versatile, vision)
passion, assure, reassure, assurance, Russia, mission, fission, session
(but not passive, assay, Assam, bassoon, cosset, dissuade, essay, fissile, issue, missile, Tessa, etc)
sure, insure, insurance, reinsurance
social, artificial, official, precious
(but not society, artifice, office or officer, precise or precision)
imagination, situation, reputation, notion
action, actually, dictionary, fiction, function, auction
Compare IPA sounds ʒ (vision) and ʃ (mission)