The next trickiest consonants after ق [qaf], in the various spoken dialects of Arabic, are ث [tha], ذ [dhal], ظ [dha], and ض [dhad]. In Egypt and much of the Levant, the letter ث [tha] practically disappears, being sometimes converted to س [sin] as in
ثورة [thau-ra] (revolution) --> سورة [sau-ra],
and other times to ت [ta] as in
كثير [ka-thir] -->كتير [ka-teer].






