• § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In English, the digraph ⟨th⟩ represents in most cases either one or the other of two phonemes: the voiced dental fricative...
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  • digraph in the Roman alphabet Pronunciation of English th aspects of this digraph in English Voiced dental fricative /ð/, a type of consonantal sound in some...
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  • are a variety of pronunciations in modern English and in historical forms of the language for words spelled with the letter ⟨a⟩. Most of these go back...
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  • see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The pronunciation of the phoneme /r/ in the English language has many variations in different dialects...
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  • th-fronting, such as some varieties of Cockney and African American Vernacular English. See Pronunciation of Englishth⟩. The voiceless velar fricative /x/...
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  • stop // to a dental fricative /θ/. This mutation affected the pronunciation ofth⟩, which began to be used to represent the phoneme /θ/ in some of the...
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    Thorn (letter) (redirect from Þ)
    or þorn (Þ, þ) is a letter in the Old English, Old Norse, Old Swedish and modern Icelandic alphabets, as well as modern transliterations of the Gothic...
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  • delimiters. Non-native pronunciations of English result from the common linguistic phenomenon in which non-native speakers of any language tend to transfer...
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  • § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Th-fronting is the pronunciation of the English "th" as "f" or "v". When th-fronting is applied, [θ] becomes [f]...
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    Written English has a large number of digraphs, such as ⟨ch⟩, ⟨ea⟩, ⟨oo⟩, ⟨sh⟩, and ⟨th⟩. Diacritics are generally not used to write native English words...
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  • nouns where southern English has /ðz/ (baths, youths, etc.); with and booth are pronounced with /θ/. (See Pronunciation of English th.) In colloquial speech...
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  • History of English Syntax: a transformational approach to the history of English sentence structure. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Visser, F. Th. (1963–1973)...
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  • see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The pronunciation of the digraph ⟨wh⟩ in English has changed over time, and still varies today between...
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  • transcription delimiters. A pronunciation respelling for English is a notation used to convey the pronunciation of words in the English language, which do not...
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  • taught to English speakers with their modern Greek pronunciations of [θ], [f], and [x] ~ [ç] respectively, because these sounds are easier for English speakers...
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    in the Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tuvan, and Mongolian languages Th-fronting, pronunciation of English "th" as "f" or "v". Ҫ ҫ : Cyrillic letter the, which is pronounced...
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  • (see Pronunciation of English th), and the voiceless alveolar sibilant can be represented by ⟨s⟩ or ⟨c⟩. It is, however, not (solely) the shortage of letters...
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  • the English thin, [θɪn]. Dental ejective fricative [θʼ] Pronunciation of Englishth⟩ Zhao, Sherry Y. (18 October 2010). "Stop-like modification of the...
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  • The traditional English pronunciation of Latin, and Classical Greek words borrowed through Latin, is the way the Latin language was traditionally pronounced...
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    some words as a result of yod-coalescence (for example, in words ending in "-ture", such as future). A common digraph is ⟨th⟩, which usually represents...
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    th⟩ usually corresponds to /θ/ (voiceless interdental fricative) in thin or /ð/ (voiced interdental fricative) in then. See also Pronunciation of English...
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  • English number words include numerals and various words derived from them, as well as a large number of words borrowed from other languages. Cardinal...
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  • original pronunciation of the digraph up until Early Modern English when the /ɡ/ sound was lost in most words, giving /ŋ/ a phonemic status in English. Another...
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    the pronunciation of th- as /f/ (thanks pronounced fanks) or /v/ (bother pronounced bover). Scots is today considered a separate language from English, but...
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  • Later changes in pronunciation, however, combined with the adoption of various foreign spellings, mean that the spelling of modern English words appears...
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  • approximate the Greek sounds. /pʰ kʰ/ were pronounced with notable aspiration, like the initial consonants of the English pot, top, and cot respectively...
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  • from Middle English to Early Modern English was not just a matter of changes of vocabulary or pronunciation; a new era in the history of English was beginning...
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  • delimiters. Th-stopping is the realization of the dental fricatives [θ, ð] as stops—either dental or alveolar—which occurs in several dialects of English. In...
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    Pronunciation of Englishth⟩. In Old High German, the stops were moved according to the High German consonant shift. In Dutch, the idiosyncrasies of...
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  • Voiceless dental fricative (category English th)
    non-sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. It is familiar to English speakers as the 'th' in think. Though rather rare...
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