***Don't some dialects in England dispense with th, replacing it with "f". maybe using "f" would help?***
That's so true - down here in London it's quite common to hear people use an "f" for the "th" sound - but the vast majority are from a certain background, if that doesn't sound too classist or something, but neverthess it's true - probably much more likely from people off a council estate in Lewisham than from the leafy avenues of Holland Park or Blackheath or Ealing. But you can also hear it round these parts of London - a gang of lads walking down Putney High Steet using "f" in stead of "th" - "fir'y fahsand fevvers on a frush's froat" - not that they're ever likely to be discussing the thirty thousand feathers on a thrush's throat. For some reason in London-speak the "th" sound in the word "feathers" becomes a double v.
That's so true - down here in London it's quite common to hear people use an "f" for the "th" sound - but the vast majority are from a certain background, if that doesn't sound too classist or something, but neverthess it's true - probably much more likely from people off a council estate in Lewisham than from the leafy avenues of Holland Park or Blackheath or Ealing. But you can also hear it round these parts of London - a gang of lads walking down Putney High Steet using "f" in stead of "th" - "fir'y fahsand fevvers on a frush's froat" - not that they're ever likely to be discussing the thirty thousand feathers on a thrush's throat. For some reason in London-speak the "th" sound in the word "feathers" becomes a double v.