th as in thin is a breathed consonant

How to pronounce th: as in thin is a breathed consonant

Broaden the tip of the tongue, place it between the teeth and blow softly. Do not protrude the tongue.

Webster, th Funk and Wagnalls, th Phonetic Symbol /θ/

Drill: thah, tha, thee, thoo, thoh, thaw ath, eth, ith, oath, uth, oth

This sound occurs initially, finally, and medially:

Clean teeth and a clean mouth improve health
Kenneth found the sheath in the path
Put the lath underneath the hawthorn
Beth thought Ruth's fourth tooth came through slowly
The traveler thanked the smith for the
The thirsty youth took the broth and ran southward
Mathew and Arthur are enthusiastic athletes
The man hired the truthful and thrifty Timothy
Methodical Martha took the wreath from the box
The author thought Nathan was thankless and thoughtless
Did Dorothea find the length and width of Althea's thistledown pillow?
Ruthless Judith threw Ethel's thread and Agatha's thimble through the door of the thatched cottage
A soft answer turneth away
'' When the wind is in the north, The skillful fisher goes not forth; When the wind is in the south, It blows the bait in the fishes' mouth."

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Eriberto Do Nascimento has Ph.D. in Speech Intelligibility and Artificial Intelligence and is the founder of English Phonetics Academy