Pronunciation of 'months'

I've read that 'months' is not pronounced  /mʌnθs/.  Rather, according to one textbook, it is pronounced /mʌns/. However, the other book says it is pronounced /mʌnts/  (/ts/ as in /ts/ of 'students'). So I was wondering which of them is right.

Thank you in advance.

/mʌns/ for all practical purposes is the same as /mʌnts/ because we put in a "sycophantic T" between /n/ and /s/.

Thus prince = prints.

I say /mʌnθs/, or, if you want to transcribe that sycophantic T again, /mʌntθs/.  It's a "dental T" here, however, and barely audible.

CJ

No.  Surely I mean sycophantic!  It's the word I've seen used several times to refer to this (epenthetic) phenomenon!

I say poTAYto, you say poTAHto. 

CJ

Good question. Thank you all for replying. I got it

This article I came across says 'fifths' and 'fists' sound almost identical, the only two differences being that i) for the former, the sound of 's' is made by the tip of the tongue touching the edges of the upper teeth instead of the alveolar ridge; ii) the sound is longer for the former. About the 's' sound in 'fifths', is this a compromise between 'θ' (the tip of the tongue between the upper and lower teeth) and the normal way of saying 's' (the tip of the tongue against the alveolar ridge), since the position is halfway?

Thanks