Re: The Fifty United States, etc.

[Chris Handley <chandley@OTAGO.AC.NZ>]

Thus Mark:

>Whew.  I was worried I'd really lost it.  But a thought occurred to me: why
>are we transliterating "th" as "t"?  Honestly, "f" sounds lots closer to my
>ear.  Ask any 3-year-old who's still working on English phonology, and
>you'll hear stuff like "norf" and "souf".  Ditto with "v" for the voiced
>th.  Has this been considered any?  Just a thought.
>
Depends where you come from -- any good Afrikaner will say an 'f' sound
there without even blinking (bear me up Van Dyk), but equally a good German
will use  a hard 't' in the same circumstances.

Chris Handley.



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