English spellings/Catalogs/T
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T
T = têa drink = têe golf
tábleau *táblô, plural tábleaux *táblôze
tâilor clothes = Tâylor person
tâle story = tâil animal
Táliban or Táleban
Taîwàn
tålk -åk; more examples in retroalphabetical list
Tállíín -íí- as í
tálon
tambourìne
tangerìne
Tanzanìa - Tá-
taoìseach *têeshək
táriff *tárrif
tárôt rhymes with árrôw
tāsk cf. túsk
Tâte = Tâit
tattoô
tåut firm = tåught teach
Tbilìsi *Təblêezy, *Tblìssi - neither spelt nor pronounced ‘Tibilisi’
Tchaikóvsky has a redundant T: *Chŷ-kóffsky
têa drink = têe golf = tì do-re-mi
têam game = têem pour
téar paper
têar cry
têase provoke = têas tea
têenager one word
teetôtaller BrE; AmE teetôtaler
Tehràn - é or è; or Teheràn
Tél Avìv
télephône
teléphony
télevísion -ízhn
télly
ténant landlord = Ténnant person
téndency
ténor sound = ténner money
tërn bird = türn round
Terpsíchore rhymes with híckory
Terpsichŏrean Tërpsik-
térrorism
testósterone
téther - no 'a'
th- can be a simple t sound, as in Thaî below; the fricative th sound can be voiced or unvoiced, and on this page is respelt as dh- wherever voiced: thôugh *dhô
Thaî nationality = tîe knot, score
Thaîland *Tŷlənd
Thames *Témz
than dh-; only thán at dictation speed
thát dh-; as a demonstrative it has the á sound, but when a conjunction or relative pronoun it normally has schwa, *dhət: Î dôn’t thínk that thát was the sâme ván as the òne that was hêre befŏre
thåw freeze = BrE Thŏr god
the *dhə: the schwa sound before a following consonant, thê before a following vowel; in other circumstances thê sounds mannered, as with â for the indefinite article
thêatre - a as schwa: *thêəter; AmE -ter
théir them dh- = thére here = théy’re they are: *thãir
Thêodore
thêorem
thêory
thérefore dh-
thêse this -z
thêsês thesis -ssêez
thèy dh-
thìêf
thìêves
thínk
thís dh-
Thómas Tó-
Thómpson, Thómson Tó-
thŏrn rose, letter þ
thòrough exacting *thúrra, cf. throûgh
thòu you *dhòu
thôugh although *dhô
thŏught think *thåwt
thŏught-provôking hyphenated
thréat
thréepence or *thrùpence or *thrúppence
thréshold
threŵ throw
thrôes anguish = thrôws throw
thrône queen = thrôwn throw
throûgh (informally thrû) preposition = threw throw; cf. thòrough
throughòut all over one word = threŵ òut throw out, w sounded
thrôw toss
thrôwn throw = thrône king
thúmb -m
thús dh-
thwårt
thŷme herb = tîme clock
tîde sea = tîed tie
tîe knot, level = Thaî nation, cf. tŷing
tìêr rank = têar cry, cf. téar rip
tîer tie
tíff
tîger cf. Nigér *Nizhãir
tîghten tight = tîtan giant = Tîtan Saturn
Tîgris
Tijuàna *Tiuwàna
Tikrìt
tíll until, field
tîme hours = thyme herb
tîmetable one word; cf. tîmes tâbles
Tìmor
tínpot adjective one word
Tintágel -j-
tîre tired, AmE car = tŷre BrE car = Tŷre Lebanon
tîtan giant = tîghten tight = Tîtan Saturn
títillate *títtilate
títivate, títtivate
tîtle
títtle-tattle
tmêsis
to preposition *tə; when stressed, especially before a vowel = toô also, much, tŵo 2
tôad animal = tôwed tow
tôaster toast = Tôcester England
to-do fight = to do do *tədû
tôe foot = tôw pull
tóffee *tóffy
tôga’ed
tôld tell = tôlled toll, cf. åll tôld
tólerance
tôll
tómahawk cf. Tómmy
tomb *toôm
Tómmy cf. Tôny
tòn avoirdupois = tònne metric = tún cask
Tónga - g sound optional
tòngue mouth *túng, cf. tóngs
Tôny cf. Tómmy
toô much = to at = tŵo number
tópple
tópsy-türvy
tŏrment noun = tormént verb
tornâdôs cf. potâtôes
tŏrturous torture
tŏrtûous twisting
Tóttenham *Tótnəm
toúch cf. pòuch
toúgh hard = túff rock
Touloûse France ≈ to lose lost
toûr
toûr de fŏrce
Toûr de Frànce
tourniquet BrE *toûrnikây, AmE *türnikit
tòusle -zle
tòut
tôw rope = tôe digit
tòwel
tòwer building
tôwer tow
tráffic rhymes with gráphic
trâil cf. trîal
trâiler cf. tâilor
trâit character = trây flat
trajéctory
tranquíllity BrE; AmE -íli-
transpárent cf. pãrent
transséxual -ss-
traumátic -åu-
trêat
trêatíse study = trêatíes treaty
tréspass -əss *trésspass
trîal cf. trâil
tríbûne
tribûnal -î-
triénnial -î-
trígger-háppy
tríptých -ík
trîumph
tróglodyte
trombône
troôp army = troûpe stage
troúble rhymes with búbble, doúble
troúbleshoôt one word
tróugh -óff
tròunce
trûe
trûly *trûely
trûth unvoiced -th
trûths -dhz
trŷ
trýst
tsàr or czàr *zàr
tsétsê, tsunàmi - it makes little difference whether or not one attempts to pronounce the initial t
Tsvángeraî, Tsvángiraî Cháng-
tubërculôsis
Tûcsón *Tûsón
Túnbridge Wélls has a ú, but nearby Tònbridge, with the same sound, has an ò
tûne *cheŵn
Tûnis *Chûníss
Tunisia BrE *Chû-níziə, AmE *Toô-nêezhə
túnnel
türn round = tërn bird
túppence = twòpence
Türkêy country = türkêy bird
türmoil
Tutankhàmun
TV *têe-vêe
tẁaddle
twêezers cf. têaser *têezer
twërp
tŵo 2 *tû = to at = toô also, much
tŷing, from tîe
tyránnical
týranny
tŷrant
tŷre car AmE tîre car, tired = Tŷre Lebanon