From: Che DeBarna
Message: 8822
Date: 2001-08-29
I've been to London lately and I was strangely surprised when I first heard this substitution of 'th' by 'f' in 'three' or (the city of) 'Bath', and in my opinion it is quite spread, at least in England.
>From: markodegard@... >Reply-To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com >To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com >Subject: [tied] Re: pulcher >Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 21:43:53 -0000 > >Piotr writes: > (now often ['nefju:] rather than ['nevju:]) > >Not often: ALWAYS, at least in AmE. > >In certain non-stressed positions, [v] often seem to have reduced >voicing, almost merging with [f], at least to my ear. > >There's also a class of BrE/Oz native-speaker that turns thorn >(unvoiced th, as in 'thorn') into [f] (bathroom --> baffroom, death >--> >deaf, etc). >