[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: pronunciation

[Random832]

Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Random832 <random832 at ...> wrote:
> 
>> No idea - but, I can think of plenty of exact pairs for voiced/ 
>> voiceless "th" - "mouth" as noun vs verb is one. I was asking if
>> there were any for her two different voiceless ones.
>>
> 
> "Mouth" as verb is pronounced differently than "mouth" as noun?
> 
> My friend Lee told me that "the minimum meaningful difference test"
> for voiced/unvoiced "th" is met by "either/ether".
> 
> My two different unvoiced "th" pronunciations don't change the
> meanings of any words because they are, I believe, a matter of dialect
> pronunciation.

Right - but are there any words that other people pronounce the 'th' 
identically, but you pronounce one with an 's' and the other with an 'f'?