Oh those booths

[Dorian Juric]

A Native English Speaker from Western Canada voicing in. We've only got the two forms that I'm aware of:
/bu:θ/ for singular and /bu:ðz/ for plural.

Dorian

> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:54:41 +0000
> From: ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Oh those booths
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
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> As an American speaker (from New England), I say the singular unvoiced: /bu:θ/ and then I optionally have voicing in the plural: /bu:θs/ or /bu:ðz/. That's phonemic representation. A detail of the phonetics of English /z/ (like English voiced obstruents in general) is that they are not always voiced all the way from beginning to end; word-initial /z/ starts out unvoiced and then becomes voiced, so it's [sz...] whereas word-final /z/ starts out voiced and becomes unvoiced towards the end, so it's [...zs]. When I listen to the on-line dictionary saying the plural, I hear [bu:ðzs], so the z is indeed first voiced, and then unvoiced towards the end--and I would say it in this way too.
> Thank you for mentioning the site site www.howjsay.com, by the way! I didn't know about it before.
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> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] on behalf of Goloviznin Konstantin [kottcoos at GMAIL.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 8:03 AM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Oh those booths
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> There is some doubt about pronunciation of the word booths.
> Dictionaries  give two variants for singular of it . Those are
> [buːð] and [buːθ]. Сorrespondingly the plural for them should be
> [buːðz] and [buːθs]. But listening to it on the site www.howjsay.com
> gives [buːðs]. Am I right about my hearing and this time it's  only
> some exception to the rule "after voiced - voiced, after unvoiced -
> unvoiced" or something else?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Konstantin
> 
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