{"id":872,"date":"2009-02-05T09:55:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T08:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=872"},"modified":"2009-02-05T09:55:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T08:55:05","slug":"word-of-the-day-thetatismus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; thetatismus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thetatismus is apparently a term used in speech therapy to describe the inability to pronounce one or both of the dental fricatives: \/\u03b8\/ as in three, and \/\u00f0\/, as in these.<\/p>\n<p>I came across it in Anthony Burgess\u2019s book <em>A Mouthful of Air &#8211; Language, Languages \u2026 Especially English<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So now I know what I \u2019suffered\u2019 from when I was a lad &#8211; I couldn\u2019t pronounce \/\u03b8\/ and didn\u2019t know there was a difference between \/\u03b8\/ and \/f\/, so didn\u2019t distinguish between three and free. I also substituted \/v\/ for \/\u00f0\/ when it appeared in the middle of words. Even now pronouncing \/\u03b8\/ is not entirely natural for me and I tend to say \/f\/ instead when I\u2019m not concentrating. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thetatismus is apparently a term used in speech therapy to describe the inability to pronounce one or both of the dental fricatives: \/\u03b8\/ as in three, and \/\u00f0\/, as in these. I came across it in Anthony Burgess\u2019s book A Mouthful of Air &#8211; Language, Languages \u2026 Especially English. So now I know what I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}