Why do Spanish say th instead of s?
C was pronounced ts and a was pronounced dz; these became th in Madrid but s in Andalusia (southern Spain). Most settlers in The Americas came from Southern Spain so in the Americas c z and s are all pronounced s.
Can Spanish people pronounce s?
When talking about Spanish pronunciation in Spain, it’s important to understand the words ceceo, seseo and distinción. … If you pronounce all three of these letters like an English s, that’s called seseo, and the verb is sesear. If you pronounce an s like an English s, but a c or z like a th, that’s called distinción.
Is C in Spanish pronounced th?
The letter c in Spanish can be pronounced like the k in the English word kick, the s in the English word sun, or the th in the English word thing.
How is the letter Z pronounced in Spanish?
The Spanish letter Z is pronounced like the soft C (the letter C in front of E and I); that is, it is pronounced like a TH (in Spain)* or an S (in Latin America).
Why do British say F instead of th?
TH-fronting
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