Oh those booths

[Guy Netscher]

Hi all.  As a British English speaker, I can say that [buːð] to rhyme with "soothe" can occur in some parts of the UK.

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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Oh those booths

Goloviznin Konstantin wrote:

> 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?

I hear [buːðs] on the website, as you do, but I find it unnatural; I
would have [buːθs], but have heard and would accept [buːðz].

As for the singular, I cannot imagine anyone saying [buːð] to rhyme with
"soothe" and "toothe." In all my travels, I don't think I've ever run
into a "boothe-sayer."

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