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  • Petraeus has already decided he's going to call th...

    06/01/2007 2007

  • Another pronunciation problem that comes up occasionaly is height because some people pronounce it as if it ended in 'th.'

    Behind the scenes at the UK's highest court Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • If TIME's person of the year was YOU -- it seems like they left off the last two letters, "th."

    Anastasia Goodstein: Reflections On The Year in Youth Culture 2008

  • CBS just published a big story about this: CBS News Anchor Dan Rather says many of those raising questions about the documents have focused on something called superscript, a key that automatically types a raised "th."

    09/10/2004 2004

  • His style of speech was extremely prolix, and he appeared deliberately to select as many words as possible beginning with the diphthong "th."

    The Mummy Case Peters, Elizabeth 1985

  • 'Mith Gwynne thaid you were going to a London curacy; I thought it might be Tht Jameth'th.'

    Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

  • She did it with two unbroken movements; she put up all the fingers of her right hand to her brow, and that meant five: then she turned her hand rapidly, so as to hide her mouth from the others, who were both on her right hand, and she made the word thousand clear, with her lips and tongue, especially the "th."

    Put Yourself in His Place Charles Reade 1849

  • Leonard says the hardest part of an American wedding for Japanese couples is to speak the traditional ring ceremony: all those words with "th."

    NPR Topics: News 2009

  • Leonard says the hardest part of an American wedding for Japanese couples is to speak the traditional ring ceremony: all those words with "th."

    NPR Topics: News 2009

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