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I think he means ...
That he would pronounce the th like the th in thanks, rather than like the th in this.
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Oh. I definitely like it more with the th as in "thanks."I got to thinking about that once, how the "th" sound is so difficult for foreigners, because only a very few languages other than English have it, and they are fairly obscure, and how it's even more complicated because there's the "th" the way it's pronounced in "thanks" and the "th" the way it's pronounced in "this." My mother-in-law still doesn't pronounce the "th" sound at all, even after sixty years in the US. She says, "tanks" and "tis" instead of "thanks" and "this."
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It is hard. Nearly all the French-speakers I know can't say the "th" sound, yet oddly enough, the names Ruth and Edith get used, in French.Elizabeth, too.
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