pronunciation

[Carol]

Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) wrote:
> > Carole wrote in
> > Continuing on the subject of people frustrating me: I am certain
that  when I say 'thin', the TH sounds a little bit like an F and when
I say  'think', the TH sounds a little bit like an S. I could say
words starting with TH all day and all the 'unvoiced' (is that right?)
ones would sound like one of those two examples. <snip>

Random832 replied: 
> Can you think of any two words that are pronounced _exactly_ the
same, except for these two sounds?

Carol responds:

Not sure how "Carole" got in here: Catlady was quoting me and you're
quoting her. I'm the one who clarified the voiced/voiceless
distinction for "th." (See upthread.)

At any rate, I can't think of any *exact* matches, but how about
"bath" and "bathe"? The a changes from short to long, true, but the
"th" changes along with it from unvoiced in "bath" to voiced in
"bathe." If anyone can say both words with the same "th" sound,
they're speaking some dialect I'm unfamiliar with.

Carol, wondering where the "e" added to her name came from