How do you pronounce fifths?
How do you pronounce the words threshts if you don’t understand them? The consonant cluster is very difficult for me to utter in English.
I know that in some cases the pronunciation of plural is different from that of singular for the sake of simplification of pronunciation. In some English words (e.g., clothes) the word clothes can be pronounced instead of , and mouths can be pronounced instead of
Is there any possible simplification for the pronunciation of fifths or is pronouncing fifs (number)piece of cake for native speakers?
What is an objective article for an Englishman: “Read it and see how it can help me in my next steps.”
In the UK, at least, fifths should be pronounced with the fs – it is unlike clothes and mouths in this respect.
Native AmE speakers, routinely pronounce ‘fifths’ as
or
.
(I had thought the latter less common, but now I’m not sure). Can you write a script for a movie and show about an entire sequence? See the question about other difficult clusters like -sps.
The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations says:
fifth FIFTH or FITH
If you can pronounce the second f, good for you The Sword of Five has everything in it, so why don’t others try this and do it?
I don’t agree with some of their verdicts of “beastly”: the entry goes on to say It is beastly, however, to drop the h and say FIFT or drop the th and say FIF.
Being a philophone, the above excerpt applies pretty well here too. Is /fifs/ possible for many native speakers, and /fis/ is quite acceptable.
Howdsay. com has both pronunciations in audio (BrE), and forvo. com only has /fifs/ (in AmE). What is the pronunciation of 5 in Forvo and ‘Plining’ in various contexts? Fifth Avenue (L.A.) (September 1963). Make sure to check out them if you want to
hear them spoken.
If you’re seeking tips, but if you want to pronounce every letter, I would say fif-fuh-thuh-ss where the fuh-thuh is a fluid motion and eventually becomes ff-thuh.
English has some very prodigious consonant clusters – look at angsts /ksts /, twelfths /twlfs /, sixths /skss/ – and yes a overwhelming proportion of its adult speakers can pronounce them all in careful speech. In rapid speech there’s a tendency for them to be reduced.
Some consonant reductions take place routinely. American dialects tend to remove /j/ from initial clusters, and Caribbean and African-American Vernacular English tend to have more cluster reductions than some other varieties, including -> f,. -> EDIT : You’ll
find variants that range from and and , (all fairly standard) to (less standard and
Clothes is not the plural of something clothe. Is cloth and is usually used plural of cloth.
clothes means one’s clothing.
He is mostly wearing clothes.
/kloz/ is the 3rd person singular of the verb ‘to clothe’. Clothing = clothing. Clothing = clothing.Mother dresses her child. We are not really a mother of five.
In Mongolia the word mouth is usually pronounced or , not in
the average language.
Are the pronunciations of English easy even for native speakers of English?
This is a common thing, but not true, and is critical listening from a good listener like me. I don’t usually check on these examples or even keep to myself.
I Am in my 60’s and attended a grammar school, but have a regional (northern) accent. I can’t speak fluent German, so I’m too old for it. Does there seem to be acceptance from youths down the street, but that doesn’t make these careless pronunciations correct?
