• MushroomsEverywhere@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Your examples of “with” and “through” are a bit weird, as the former is voiced and the latter is voiceless. Anyway, you should start using ð as well, like in ðe, ðis and alðough. Maximum confusion for everyone else!

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      7 months ago

      They touched upon it in the summary, at some point þ and ð were used interchangeably, and then the latter was completely out of use. It’s not like they tried to be as confusing as possible, but we get what we get

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      7 months ago

      you pronounce the th in with mainly voiced? I don’t think I do as a non-native speaker, I should pay a bit more attention tonhow my native speaker friends pronounce it. either way I’m pretty sure both are used depending on the following phoneme and dialect

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        7 months ago

        I’m non-native as well, although I guess I’d consider myself quite fluent. I definitely pronounce the th in “with” and “that” the same, but “with” with voiceless dental fricative really feels like a common thing among non-natives.