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How to pronounce “thorn”

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Pronunciation guide for thorn

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of thorn with real speech in context.
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Real speech example: How we can eliminate child sexual abuse material from the internetAnd that's exactly what we're doing at Thorn.
Definition summary: (botany) A modified branch that is hard and sharp like a spike.

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How we can eliminate child sexual abuse material from the internet

And that's exactly what we're doing at Thorn.

[Noun]
(botany) A modified branch that is hard and sharp like a spike.
Any thorn-like structure on plants, such as the spine and the prickle.
Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.
(figurative) That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).
[Verb]
To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn (sharp pointed object).

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