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Da Standirt English "th" soonds ir aafil rare, onnly fun athin aboot 7.5% o da languages o da wirld. Linguistically d'ir caaed 'dental/alveolar non-sibilant fricatives' an da phonetic symbols fir dem ir /θ/ fir da voiceless soond in think (/θɪŋk/) and /ð/ fir da voiced soond in them (/ðɛm/). Phonetically d'ir braaly whied an herd tae mak oot. In Shaetlan, jüst laek in maist varieties o English an Scots aroond da wirld, dis soonds ir maistly herdent tae da plosives /t/ an /d/ (at's aesier tae mak oot), as in tink (/tɪŋk/) an dem (/dɛm/), aless inna sum wirds (laek ithoot 'without', pronounced /əθ'ut/).

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