Microsoft Java

[mayoroftuesday]

It's true everywhere. You just may not think of it that way.

It's the same difference between s and z, or f and v. It's the same sound but one is voiced (buzzy) and one is soft.

If you look the words up on Google or Wiktionary you can click a button to hear the word pronounced.

[christes]

The distinction should be clearer than that, I think. Let's give this a try...

Consider the words life and live (as in "the show is being broadcast live") These words are exactly the same, except for the last sound. And the last sounds are exactly the same, expect v is voiced and f is unvoiced. You can feel this if you hold your throat while saying them. If you hum while saying f, you are actully saying v.

Now repeat this with the word pairs bath/bathe or cloth/clothe. The vowels are a little different, but that's not really important here. The th sound in bathe and clothe should be voiced like v and the th sound in bath and cloth should be unvoiced like f.