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Really? φθ? Feels kind of funny :D I've never seen a combination of these sounds before.
Never heard of diphthongs or diphtheria? There's also phthisis though that's a medical term and not all that common (I'm not even sure what it means).
Fun fact: diphthong doesn't come from diph + thong but from di + phthong. (φθόγγος is a speech sound.)
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I forgot about diphthong. Still, this combination is quite funny to me. Maybe because here in Poland 90% of people (who sadly don't care about any phonetics at all) can't pronounce /θ/. So "thank you = fank you", "thought = fought" "thief = fief/tief" etc. I imagine how they'd pronounce all those φθινόπωρα :)
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That depends on the language. If TH doesn't exist in a certain language, then it's replaced by the closest consonant which varies. In Russian they'd say S, while you mentioned in Polish it's F. In Bulgarian, it's T.
Yeah, Polish people are having a big problem with the sound of /θ/ and /δ/. Przy okazji pozdrawiam z deszczowej Anglii.
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There's a chemical called phenolphthalein, which our high school chemistry teacher insisted on making us pronounce with the proper "phth" consonant cluster - that was useful!
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it was a rule in ancient greek that ph always goes with th, not with t and similarly for ch and th. The sounds were pronounced differently (closer to the main sound followed by an h) so it made sense in that context
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I think "autumn" without the article should be accepted as correct.
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My favorite combination is 'σθ'. Beautiful words like σθένος, αίσθηση, and μισθός. :-)
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Click the "loudspeaker" icon next to the phrase in Duo and you can hear it.
