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zoethe*'s username is pronounced "ZOH-eth"... long 'o', short 'e', soft 'th'.
It is NOT pronounced like the German poet, novelist, playwright and scientist who got a few things dead wrong, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — ['gø tə] which is something like "GER-tuh".
It is a sight rhyme only.
I asked. =)
* Gini, law student, "increasingly radical pagan chyk" and quite an interesting read.
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So "th" in "thy" (voiced) would be "hard" for you? Or what?
For me, "soft" = "voiced", if it means anything at all in relation to fricatives.
Different terminology can be interesting.
Yes. The voiced is the "hard 'th'" to me.
For me, "soft" = "voiced"
Huh. Fascinating.
goose is a hard 'g'; gymnasium is a soft 'g'.
catamaran is a hard 'c'; civilization is a soft 'c'.
Are either of those different for you?
I suppose then "hard" means "stop/plosive" while "soft" means "fricative or affricate".
In which case, both versions of th would have to be "soft", and without a "hard" counterpart in English. (c might be the hard counterpart in Castilian Spanish, I suppose.)
I suppose I've heard "hard" most often in connection with g.