Episode 159: Elizabethan Voices
The History of English Podcast
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The Voiceless T-H Sound in the Elizabethan Period
John Hart proposed bringing back the old English letters Thorne and F to distinguish those two T-H sounds. The voiceless T-H sound was common at the end of certain nouns, just like today. When those words were made plural, the voiceless thth became voiced thth. That's why many people today wear clothes, but they don't pronounce the TH sound in the word.
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