YAEPT: Voiceless TH in wheth er, wort hy (w as: UTF-8 Test: z h ōng guó ( �� ��), 한궄,)

H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 09:57:11PM -0800, Arthaey Angosii wrote:
>
>>Emaelivpeith Mark J. Reed 'sa <markjreed@...>:
>>
>>>So what's your excuse for devoicing the |th| in |whether|? :)
>>
>>My mother pronounces "worthy" as [wr\=Ti]. I wonder if she devoices
>>the TH in "whether" or "weather"...  Does anyone know if voiceless-TH
>>"worthy" is a dialect thing, or if it's just an idiosyncrasy of my
>>mom's idiolect?
>
> [...]
>
> It may be a British thing.
Definitely not. I've lived in Britain for 67+ years and always heard it
pronounced with medial /D/.

Nor is [r\=] a normal British rendition of the stressed vowel + possible
/r/ (pronounced in some British varieties). [r\=] is surely 'Merkan.
Whether medial /T/ occurs in any 'Merkan varieties I cannot say -
obviously if it does it must be a dialect variant.

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