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breaths is pronounced as [breθz] or [breθs] ?

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oristarA
 
Reply Wed 27 Apr, 2011 05:10 am
or even [breðz]?
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Region Philbis
 
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Reply Wed 27 Apr, 2011 06:14 am
@oristarA,

breaths sounds like breths.

breathes sounds like breethz...
Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 27 Apr, 2011 06:15 am
Rather a breezey reply, wasn't it?
Region Philbis
 
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Reply Wed 27 Apr, 2011 06:22 am
@Setanta,

breezed right through it...
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oristarA
 
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Reply Wed 27 Apr, 2011 07:51 am
@Region Philbis,
Region Philbis wrote:


breaths sounds like breths.

breathes sounds like breethz...


Thanks.

But the question remains unsolved for me.
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oristarA
 
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Reply Wed 27 Apr, 2011 07:53 am
@Region Philbis,
Region Philbis wrote:


breaths sounds like breths.

breathes sounds like breethz...


It seems to me:

You meant breths = [breθs] ;

And breethz = [breðz] .

I'm not sure.
contrex
 
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Reply Wed 27 Apr, 2011 11:39 am
@oristarA,
oristar, the problem is, I think, that hardly anybody knows what those weird phonetic representations mean. Where di you find them? Why don't you ask the question in ordinary English? What do you wish to know? How the final 's' of breaths (the plural of the noun breath) is pronounced? Is that your question? If so, the answer is with a soft s like the s in sorry, sad, sun, seven, etc. Or the final ss in hiss.



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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Wed 27 Apr, 2011 02:04 pm
@oristarA,
For everybody:
http://englishupgrade.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/phonetic_alphabet1_1.gif
Joe Nation
 
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Reply Wed 27 Apr, 2011 02:16 pm
You meant breths = [breθs] ;

And breethz = [breðz] .

Jəʊ(they are correct)Neiʃun
ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 27 Apr, 2011 02:23 pm
@Joe Nation,
Thank you, Joe Nation. Those have always been mysteries to me and I have never cared enough to investigate.
I still don't care, but I'll save this link from this post of yours as a place to check:

http://englishupgrade.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/phonetic_alphabet1_1.gif
contrex
 
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Reply Wed 27 Apr, 2011 03:42 pm
@ossobuco,
Do you ever get the feeling that life is too short for some things?
Joe Nation
 
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Reply Wed 27 Apr, 2011 05:22 pm
@contrex,
I learned phonetic alphabet in college. My red-headed girlfriend and I sent notes to eachother in it Bɪcʌːz ɪt̬ lʊkt̬ ləɪk Coɒ
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oristarA
 
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Reply Wed 27 Apr, 2011 07:35 pm
@Joe Nation,
Joe Nation wrote:

You meant breths = [breθs] ;

And breethz = [breðz] .

Jəʊ(they are correct)Neiʃun


O... I only asked how to pronounce breaths , not breths or breethz.

Let's directly confirm or deny this:

breaths = [breðz] ?
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Robert Gentel
 
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Reply Wed 27 Apr, 2011 08:07 pm
@oristarA,
oristarA do you know that you can use merriam-webster.com and wiktionary.org to listen to audio pronunciation of words?

Doesn't always help with plurals etc, but just wanted to recommend them in case you didn't know of them.
ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 27 Apr, 2011 08:11 pm
@Robert Gentel,
True, and very useful.


Contrex, yes.
MontereyJack
 
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Reply Wed 27 Apr, 2011 08:17 pm
breaths = [breðz] ? NO
oristarA
 
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Reply Wed 27 Apr, 2011 08:46 pm
@Robert Gentel,
Robert Gentel wrote:

oristarA do you know that you can use merriam-webster.com and wiktionary.org to listen to audio pronunciation of words?

Doesn't always help with plurals etc, but just wanted to recommend them in case you didn't know of them.


No pronunciation there for breaths!

Only for breath.

You may check out the link:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/breaths

oristarA
 
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Reply Wed 27 Apr, 2011 08:47 pm
@ossobuco,
ossobuco wrote:

True, and very useful.
Contrex, yes.


Useless in this case.
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oristarA
 
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Reply Wed 27 Apr, 2011 08:48 pm
@MontereyJack,
MontereyJack wrote:

breaths = [breðz] ? NO


I need a YES reply.
Robert Gentel
 
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Reply Wed 27 Apr, 2011 09:30 pm
@oristarA,
That's why I mentioned it wasn't useful for plurals, just wanted to make sure you knew about those resources in case you didn't because when I used to teach English in Brazil my students found them very useful in other situations.

In any case, the wiktionary resource gives you IPA pronunciation (if not audio) for breaths: /brɛθs/
 

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