Mind Your Language

In our local African languages, there are some English phonetic sounds that simply don’t exist. One of them is the TH sound which we could either pronounce as D or T. For example, FATHER would become FADA, SOUTH would be SOUT. NORTH would be NOT. It could get really confusing especially for “non-indigenes”. How would one differentiate between North and Not, as both are pronounced exactly alike. It was never a problem to us because we all understood what we were saying.