• JackLSauce@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    …independently measured at [37cm], and a cast of it has been included in a museum in Iceland.

    I have questions for Iceland; mostly about how to pronounce ð but we’ll get to that later

      • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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        1 month ago

        Sort of. ð is the Icelandic rendering for both edh and thorn, depending on context. Edh is voiced, thorn isn’t.

        • dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          1 month ago

          voiced th is like this, that, mother

          unvoiced th like thick, thimble, thirty

          notice how the voiced th has a buzzing vocalization during the th sound, you can feel your teeth buzzing as you say the th in this

          but when you pronounce thirty that buzzing is absent and the first buzzing starts with the i (the vowel is the first voiced part).

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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          23 days ago

          V and F are basically the same sound, except V is voiced. Alternate between them like VVVVVVVVVVVVVFFFFFFFFFVVVVVVVVVFFFFFF while touching your throat, you’ll feel the throat vibrate while saying V but not for F

        • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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          22 days ago

          Not usually. “Not” has my tongue against the top of my mouth, just back from the base of the teeth. But if we’re talking about Lindt chocolate, that has your tongue against your teeth and you pull it back, making that sharp release of air. That’s the thorn sound.