Some rural Missouri dialects have "warsh/worsh" thing but not "wooder."

I heard that the DC accent at one point said "Warshinton", but I've never heard it in person.

I've known exactly one person who said "Warshington," but she retired two years ago from my place of work.

You hear "warsh" around here a lot. Also, "feesh"

I just got back from the Cod (those Pilgrims---so freakin' literal!) and the most pronounced accent I heard was Portuguese which is lyrical and nice to the ear.

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Anyway, most of you know how i feel about pronunciation. If a guy says "twicet" instead of "twice," I know I'm goin' to the Monster Truck Rally.

Twicet! lol

Big pet peeve...around here, the first syllable in mnemonic is pronounced like pneumonia and pneumonia is pronounced like mnemonic. Yes, we have many occasions to say mnemonic because of our software setup. People with doctorate degrees who can't enunciate? Or, the fact that most FA people I know, even, say FASFA, when it's FAFSA.

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My mom says FASFA....drives me insannnnneeee


so I know where you're coming from on that one.

Free Application for Federal Student Aid?

Maybe if they'd capitalized the other F too?

OK, back to the "th." "Th" in the and thread are the same. It is the fact that your lips, tongue, and teeth do very different things following the initial 'th' that you think you are saying them differently.

Maybe I have missed the point of the thread.

I gotta start drinking earlier in the day if I am going to respond to these things.

The is aspirated, i. e. you suck air when you say it. Thread is not, so it sounds different. The tongue stays in the same position in both, however.

Depends on accent I guess, but to me the tongue seems to touch the teeth more on "the" than on "thread".

I agree with Dana on this. My tongue is in a slightly different position, and I'm blowing out on both.

Hang on - I thought this was the RBS thread.

As far as I know, the difference between th in "this" and th in "thin" is that the first is voiced, and the second is unvoiced. Everything in your mouth is the same, but you engage your vocal cords.

I have spent a lot of time trying to get Japanese people to stick out their tongues to say "th". :flycatch: :eaty:

So much for the dental fricative. Now, about your labial plosive ...