YAEPT: Voiceless TH in wheth er, worthy (w as: UTF-8 Test: z h ōng guó ( ����), 한궄,)
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 11, 2006, 7:47 |
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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|? :)
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> 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?
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It may be a British thing.
T
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