American English Pronunciation cloth vs. clothe vs. clothes
I recently received an email hi Rachel
I have a question concerning the
following three words in English cloth
clothes clothes could you explain the
difference between the pronunciation of
these three words thank you
gladly and I’m actually going to throw a
four thread into there the plural of
cloth so let’s start with cloth the
vowel sound is the aw as in law and the
th sound is unvoiced cloth the plural
can be pronounced two different ways the
first with an unvoiced ending cloths and
that is the sound which I already went
over in the blog months however it can
also be voiced at the end which would be
clogs this now if you add an e to make
the verb clothes you will notice that
the as in cloth now becomes the clothes
so the th is now voiced however it also
changes the vowel sound
the vowel is now the Oh as in no clothes
cloth clothes clothes which is the noun
of what we wear that can also be
pronounced two different ways the I
would say official pronunciation would
be clothes in which you have the O as an
O this is the voiced th ends ending
however it wouldn’t be unheard of to
drop the sound altogether clothes
clothes and then it becomes the exact
same pronunciate pronunciation as the
word clothes as in to shut to close the
door so the words are cloth off cloths
ah
or clothes clothes clothes Oh clothes Oh
or simply owes cloth cloths clothes
clothes