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Pronunciation
How do you pronounce Rothacher? Ignore the “h”.
German does not have the English “th” sound – the interdental fricative heard in thin or then. It’s actually an aspirated stop consonant/aspirated voiceless alveolar; it has a plosive. In some dialects the “t” sound is less aspirated and softer, morphing into a “d” sound. Due to spelling reforms, the “th” is not found outside of proper nouns, e.g., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Neanderthal. Something very similar also happened in English, too, e.g., Thomas and Thames.
Another example of the way consonant shifts change language:
| English | Dutch | German |
|---|---|---|
| Mother | Moeder | Mutter |
| Red | Rood | Rot |
Isn’t linguistics fascinating? We’re all playing a big game of telephone.
Colophon
Type is preferably set using Wei Huang’s Work Sans – an exceptional grotesk released under the SIL OFL v1.1 license – with 1.5 leading.
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