From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>
> Muke Tever scripsit:
>
> > Well, I know a sort-of rule in English [probably not a rule so much as an
> > accident probably] in that given an initial dental fricative, the voiced [D]
> > only appears in pronouns (the, that, they...) and the voiceless [T] in all
other
> > parts of speech (thin, thigh, think...).
>
> Actually [D] appears in all sorts of function words: then, there. "The"
isn't
> a pronoun either.
I had thought of all those as demonstrative pronouns?
*Muke!