Clothes = pronunciation??

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Kekel

#382631 Thu, 21 Jun 07 06:00 PM

Is it true that clothes is pronunced without the th sound??
Please, tell me about it!!

Kekel

Joined on Sun, Dec 17 2006

Brazil

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Francesca

#382646 Thu, 21 Jun 07 07:13 PM

Hey Kekel, I was asking myself the same question lately! In fact I usually don't hear the 'th' sound when a native speaker says 'clothes'.
Anyway it seems to me that it's quite difficult to pronounce '-thes' or '-ths'. For instance try to say 'depths'...It's impossible to me to pronounce the th! Indifferent [:|]

Let's wait for a native speaker Smile [:)]

Francesca

Joined on Tue, Oct 11 2005

Grand Duchy of Tuscany

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Kooyeen

#382711 Thu, 21 Jun 07 11:18 PM

Hi,
I pronounce "clothes" exactly the same as "close", so no TH. This should be a standard and common pronunciation.

As for "depths"... aaaargh! I'll repeat that, in case you didn't get it: aaaaargh! Wink [;)]

Kooyeen

Joined on Thu, Dec 22 2005

Italy

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Francesca

#382714 Thu, 21 Jun 07 11:26 PM

hehe Big Smile [:D] Thanks Kooyeen! 'Depths' was in my presentation for Boston and I was so scared about how I should have pronounced it; I asked my English teacher, she replied: "I think I've never said 'depths' in my whole life" Indifferent [:|] ... at the end I said it as you wrote, but I wasn't sure it was right... Wink [;)]

Francesca

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Kekel

#382791 Fri, 22 Jun 07 03:24 AM

Hey, people!!
thanks a lot for your answers!

So it is really true that th is not pronounced!!!!! But what about the native speakers's opinion? I'd like it know it... Thinking [*-)]

Kekel

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Bldudas

#382796 Fri, 22 Jun 07 03:42 AM

In clothes the th is not pronounced. It sounds like close.

Hee, hee, I do not think ths is hard to pronounce.

Bldudas

Joined on Mon, Apr 2 2007

Pennsylvania, United States

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I speak American English. Well, actually, a version of Philadelphia area English.

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CalifJim

#382814 Fri, 22 Jun 07 04:44 AM

So it is really true that th is not pronounced!!!!!

Yes. It's really, really, really true. Smile [:)]

shows, nose, clothes, rose, toes, Lowe's, foes, chose, Joe's, crows, grows, hose, doze, goes, close, froze

All end in the same sounds!

This kind of thing is not unusual in English.

colonel, kernel; Wednesday, Ben's day

CJ

(Native speaker - AmE)