# What's so difficult about English "th"?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 19, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-difficult-about-english-th/486592 "2009-02-19T19:52:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-difficult-about-english-th/486592/81 "2009-02-21T19:19:24Z")

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> [@scifisam2009](#):
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> You can’t claim ‘I can make the same sound by using different parts of my mouth’ any more than you can claim ‘I can hit the letter c on the keyboard and it comes out as a g,’ unless your keyboard has been reset; I doubt your mouth is different to all other humans.

Actually that’s the only possibility I could think of, that maybe he has some unusual bone ridge on the roof of his mouth or something.

Baritone voice can’t have anything to do with it- unless his voice changed in the womb.

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