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Help[Opinions] Re: Blythe
in reply to a message by puck
I don't even know what you mean when you speak of a pronunciation difference.
It makes me think of Blythe Danner, and Blythe Danner always makes me think of "1776", which is one of my favorite movies, because she was in it, and so I kind of like it, though I'd never use it.
It's utterly ridiculous as a middle name for a boy. Please don't do that if you ever have a son. I've known people who refuse to divulge their middle names, but I bet my bottom dollar none had as bad a middle name as Blythe for a male.
It makes me think of Blythe Danner, and Blythe Danner always makes me think of "1776", which is one of my favorite movies, because she was in it, and so I kind of like it, though I'd never use it.
It's utterly ridiculous as a middle name for a boy. Please don't do that if you ever have a son. I've known people who refuse to divulge their middle names, but I bet my bottom dollar none had as bad a middle name as Blythe for a male.
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I think he means ...
That he would pronounce the th like the th in thanks, rather than like the th in this.
That he would pronounce the th like the th in thanks, rather than like the th in this.
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Oh. I definitely like it more with the th as in "thanks."
I got to thinking about that once, how the "th" sound is so difficult for foreigners, because only a very few languages other than English have it, and they are fairly obscure, and how it's even more complicated because there's the "th" the way it's pronounced in "thanks" and the "th" the way it's pronounced in "this." My mother-in-law still doesn't pronounce the "th" sound at all, even after sixty years in the US. She says, "tanks" and "tis" instead of "thanks" and "this."
I got to thinking about that once, how the "th" sound is so difficult for foreigners, because only a very few languages other than English have it, and they are fairly obscure, and how it's even more complicated because there's the "th" the way it's pronounced in "thanks" and the "th" the way it's pronounced in "this." My mother-in-law still doesn't pronounce the "th" sound at all, even after sixty years in the US. She says, "tanks" and "tis" instead of "thanks" and "this."
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