minimal pairs

[Larry Trask]

Pete Gray writes:

[LT]

>> 'asthma' ... fail to contain
>> any dental fricatives at all.

> It does in my speech and that of those around me, and in my dictionary.

Most interesting.  I have sometimes seen this pronunciation given
as a possible alternative in dictionaries, but I have hardly ever
heard it.

Larry Trask
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