Oh those booths

J. Morgan Zaucha jmzaucha at GOOGLEMAIL.COM
Tue Jan 31 14:04:20 UTC 2012


The voiceless variant seems more "standard" to me, but you'll see voicing in some dialects/speakers.  Afaik, both versions of voicing in the plural are in common use. 

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J. Morgan Zaucha
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31 sty 2555 BE, в 07:03, Goloviznin Konstantin <kottcoos at GMAIL.COM> написал(а):

> 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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