Re:Ghoti
by biztos on Saturday June 20, 2020 @10:53PM
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I’m from California and I had an Irish colleague there who, despite otherwise being amazingly well integrated, stuck to a hard “t” for certain cases of “th.”
So for instance if I might say “These three things,” he would say “these tree things.”
He was clearly able to make the sounds but in some cases he couldn’t. I never felt comfortable asking about it because I thought it might be a class thing.
Re:Ghoti
by Balgair on Sunday June 21, 2020 @01:30PM
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The 'th' in Irish is usually dropped to 't' if a consonant is followed or at the the tend of a word. Death become Deat, Teeth become Teet, Thrice becomes Trice, Other stays as Other because a vowel is the next sound.
So for instance if I might say “These three things,” he would say “these tree things.”
He was clearly able to make the sounds but in some cases he couldn’t. I never felt comfortable asking about it because I thought it might be a class thing.