TH
Technique:
Touch your top front teeth with your tongue and breathe out softly.
Do NOT:
Substitute another letter, such as d, f, s,
t, v or z.
This confuses words like mouse & mouth, Norse
& North, and especially sink & think.
Most common
mistakes:
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bat & bath |
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boat & both |
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3 |
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dare & there, their |
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day & they |
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den & then |
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fodder & father |
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tie & thigh |
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taught & thought
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tin & thin |
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tree & three |
Other mistakes: boot &
booth, Dan & than, debt & death, doze & those, fate &
faith, fort & fourth, letter & leather, mat & Math, root &
Ruth, tank & thank, team & theme, teats & teeth, tick &
thick, torn & thorn, toot & tooth, trill & thrill, true &
through, turd & third, udder & other, whiff & with
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Practice
these:
I am taller than Dan.
There are three trees.
We both took the boat.
Through thick and thin.
This sheet of tin is thin.
Thanks for the fish tank.
His tie touches his thigh.
Father put out the fodder.
Does Batman take a bath?
What day are they coming?
Those who doze in class will fail.
His pants were torn by the thorn.
I thought I already taught you that.
That's the third turd I've stepped in.
There are three things to think about.
Three thousand, three hundred and thirty-three.
Exceptions:
Silent: asthma, isthmus
T: Esther, Thailand, Thomas, thyme
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