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  • Zeoic@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Wait, whats different between the th in thursday and in this? They make the same sound

    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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      3 hours ago

      Imagine pronouncing “this” like the first syllable of “thistle”. There’s more emphasis on the “th” sound than there is when you say “this”

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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      9 hours ago

      Check the IPA, they do not. Incidentally, the phonetic alphabet is pretty much the only writing system that ever used thorn and eth consistently for different sounds.

      • Zeoic@lemmy.world
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        15 hours ago

        Well that must be one hell of a regional difference, because they most certainly do.

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          9 hours ago

          It’s difficult to explain this, but you’re wrong, there is no regional dialect that would pronounce the word this as this, because it is awkward.

          Both are interdental fricatives, but this is always done with a voiced dental fricative, a voiceless would be the way people pronounce thistle. Now try to say this place but say this without the le on thistle.

          I’m on mobile and can’t type out the IPA symbols, but I did take linguistics classes so I know the difference between the two phones, whereas you seem to equate the phones with their orthography.

          • Zeoic@lemmy.world
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            4 hours ago

            I really dont know what to say lol. This sounds exactly the same to thistle to me. I went and researched the voiced and voiceless th, but none of the explanations really tracked with how I say th and how i hear it said around me. To me, “voiced th” is simply me not whispering.