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KottCoos Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Oh, those booths
There is some doubt about pronunciation of the word booths. Dictionaries give two variants for singular of it . Those are
[bu?ð] and [bu??]. ?orrespondingly the plural for them should be [bu?ðz] and [bu??s]. But having some trust to my ears I got [bu?ðs] on the site www-howjsay-com. Am I right about my ears' belief and this time there's only some exception to the rule "after voiced - voiced, after unvoiced - unvoiced" or something else?
[bu?ð] and [bu??]. ?orrespondingly the plural for them should be [bu?ðz] and [bu??s]. But having some trust to my ears I got [bu?ðs] on the site www-howjsay-com. Am I right about my ears' belief and this time there's only some exception to the rule "after voiced - voiced, after unvoiced - unvoiced" or something else?
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s ] are accepted plurals.
- s ] are accepted plurals.
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[bu?ð] does not seem correct to me, but both [bu?ðz] and [bu??s] are accepted plurals.
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Thanks for your reply. But couldn't you tell me what I really hear on www-howjsay-com [bu?ðs] or something else.
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From another hand, forms [bu?ðz] and [bu??s] are very inconvenient to my pronunciation. But [bu?ðs] is something of fit.
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