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Sounds (phonemes) are represented by phonetic
symbols, for example /bi:t/ for ‘beat’. In English, however, there
is no one-to-one correspondence between written letters and
spoken sounds. Thus the ‘c’ of ‘cat’ is pronounced differently
from the ‘c’ in ‘cease’. ‘Though’, ‘through’ and ‘rough’ all have
the ‘-ou-’ spelling, but it is pronounced differently in each case.
Different spellings can have the same sound too: ‘plane’ and
‘gain’ both have the same vowel sound, but they are spelt
differently.
(Jeremy Harmer. How to teach English, 1998. Adaptado)
Dental fricatives are consonants with the characteristic
that air escapes through a narrow passage between
the tongue and the teeth. There is a distinction in
pronunciation between unvoiced fricatives as in “think”,
and voiced fricatives, as in “that”. The initial th is an
unvoiced fricative in