This is the second reminder (unrelated) that I have had in 2 days of an anecdote a friend of mine told me years ago. A friend of his had the fairly common speech problem of being unable to pronounce the soft/breathy "th" sound as in the word "breath" and not the hard "th" sound in "breathe". So when this man referred to his research "thesis" it sounded more like "feces".

Yesterday I listened to a radio article about a man doind his thesis on the environmental advantages of composting toilets and my thought was that it is lucky he can pronounce "th".

Today you post this thread and the thought pops up in my head again: if anyone wrote a thesis on this topic I hope they can pronounce the word properly. (grin)

And.... not that I know diddly-squat (wicked grin) about Schroedinger's Cat, but...

Helen