Comments by "zenith parsec" (@zenithparsec) on "Casually Explained: The English Language" video.

  1. Ironically, after saying it right every time until then, he actually mispronounced "the" when saying "th" was difficult to pronounce @ 2:13 ... He used an unvoiced 'th', instead of the voiced "th". ( It's like the difference between 'said' and 'zed', or 'goal' and 'coal', or 'fine' and 'vine', and the difference between "the" and "see" if you have a lisp. (With IPA symbols, he should have used ð (the 'voiced dental fricative'), but he used the 'unvoiced dental fricative' θ.) Knowing that there are two forms of 'th', and that one is voiced and one is not would probably help a foreign speaker learning English. If only more English speakers knew it...
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  2. @Cheryl When you find somethingyou like, someone always comes along and RAX it, don't they? RIP, EIP.
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