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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 days ago

And then there's the layer on the other side, because the majority of Spanish speakers worldwide pronounce it with an "S" sound.

So, the majority of Spanish speakers in the Americas (which by far outnumber the number of Spanish speakers in Spain) use an "S" sound. The dominant form of Spanish in Spain uses the "th", but the local dialect goes back to an "S" sound.

So, what rule are you going to go by? How the locals say it? The most locally of locals will use an "S" sound. How the majority of Spanish speakers say it? That's again an "S" sound. How the majority of the people in the country who legal sovereignty over that region say it? Then I guess you'd go with the "TH" sound.

The most logical rule, to me, is to pronounce it however the person you're speaking to will most easily understand it. In English to another English speaker, that almost certainly isn't going to be the "th" pronunciation.