Practice exercises:------------------------Index | Home | Back | Next
beginning with voiced dental fricative---- / ð /
034---------ðd (final) --------bathed, betrothed, clothed, seethed, swathed
035---------ðz (final) --------bathes, breathes, clothes, loathes, seethes, soothes
| / m / | / p / | / b / | / f / | / v / | / θ / | / ð / | / n / | / t / | / d / | |||
| / s / | / z / | / l / | / ʧ / | / ʤ / | / ʃ / | / ʒ / | / ŋ / | / k / | / g / | |||
Practice in use------------------------Index | Home | Back | Next
Paste words containing consonant clusters into the search engine
of The British National Corpus [opens search engine window ].
/ ðd / -------Note that voiced / ð / is followed by voiced / d / bathed betrothed bucktoothed enswathed frothed lathed mouthed seethed snaggletoothed swathed toothed underclothed unsheathed widemouthed
/ ðz / -------Note that voiced / ð / is followed by voiced / z / bathes cacoethes interwreathes night-clothes reclothes sheathes sun-bathes tithes unsheathes wreathes bed-clothes clothes lathes overclothes scythes soothes swathes unclothes unswathes writhes breathes enswathes loathes plainclothes seethes spathes teethes under-clothes withes
False Friends
Note the difference between "bathes" / ðz / voiced / ð / followed by voiced / z / and / "baths" / θs / voiceless / θ / followed by voiceless / s /.