Consonant /  /

• // is a dental, voiceless, fortis fricative.

• It is produced with the tip of the tongue between the teeth, the
air escaping through the passage.
• It occurs in initial, medial and final position.
e.g. thin / ɪn/
method /ˈmeəd/
path / pɑ:θ /
•  The sound often occurs in clusters difficult to pronounce:
eighths /eıtθs/, depths /depθs/, lengths /leŋθs/.
• The sound is always spelt th.
 Consonant / ð /
• / ð / is a dental, voiced, lenis fricative.
• In initial position it is only distributed in grammatical words such as
demonstratives: this, that, these, those, there; articles: the; adverbs:
thus.
• It occurs freely in medial position: brother, bother, rather, heathen.
• In final position it often represents the voicing of // in plurals like
mouths /mauðz/, wreaths /ri:ðz/ which may prove difficult to
pronounce, or in derived words like bath /ba:/ (noun)/bathe /beıð/
(verb) or breath /bre/ (n.)/ breathe /bri:ð/ (v.).
• The sound is always spelt th.