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Posted on entry Hit and Run, Redux ::: January 19, 2007, 04:57 PM:
IME, the "phth" sound is not hard to make in English if you think of the syllable division as coming in the middle of it. So, for example,

diff-thong
diff-theria
off-tha-mologist (oddly, the f-th sound is easy for me, but the "al-mol" sound is hard)

But fthay-late is harder, since the "f" can't naturally be moved to an earlier syllable.

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