/ð/
This page teaches controlled sound targets from our reviewed catalogue. It does not claim one universal whole-word IPA transcription: the sounds in a word can vary by speaker and target variety.
Voiced /θ/. Same tongue-between-teeth position, voice on.
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“mother”
No R sound in “mother”? That’s correct: RP (Received Pronunciation)drops an R that isn’t followed by a vowel (“car” sounds like “cah”).
“mother”
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Real recordings from our search library that contain “mother”.
Public domain
“A mother never knows which child is hers when they come out of the egg. My mother hid the egg that carried me.”
General American
From "'A Princess of Mars,' by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Part Three" (2017). VOA Learning English. Public domain (US government work). — “'A Princess of Mars,' by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Part Three”
Open this clip in General American: A mother never knows which child is hers when they come out of the egg. My motheCreator video
“mother's teeth we want it to be these are my mother's”
RP
From ETJ English (opens in a new tab) — “The "TH" Sounds - Everything You Need to Know!” · 587s
Open this clip in RP: mother's teeth we want it to be these are my mother'sCreator video
“mother British English stay tuned”
Cockney
From Eat Sleep Dream English (opens in a new tab) — “Learn Stormzy's Accent — Multicultural London English” · 14s
Open this clip in Cockney: mother British English stay tunedPublic domain
“Katharine Pyle published her 1918 version in Mother’s Nursery Tales”
General American
From "Chicken Little" (2023). VOA Learning English. Public domain (US government work). — “Chicken Little”
Open this clip in General American: Katharine Pyle published her 1918 version in Mother’s Nursery TalesCreator video
“are my mother's teeth”
RP
From ETJ English (opens in a new tab) — “The "TH" Sounds - Everything You Need to Know!” · 580s
Open this clip in RP: are my mother's teethCreator video
“instead of mother mother right that v sounding you will find that in some”
Cockney
From Eat Sleep Dream English (opens in a new tab) — “A Guide To Multicultural London English (Top Boy/Stormzy Accent)” · 450s
Open this clip in Cockney: instead of mother mother right that v sounding you will find that in someSearch our indexed caption corpus for real-context examples. Coverage varies by word and accent, so the results page may have no matching clip.
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