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⟨ts⟩

From Teflpedia

Ts is an English letter combination that is sometimes a consonant digraph.

In onset position, this occurs in an extremely small number of loan words, notably:

Word Pron. Origin Notes
tsar /zɑ:/ Russian царь. (and related words, also spelt czar)[1]
tsetse (fly) /tsetsə/ from Tswana, a Bantu language of Africa.[2]
tsunami /(t)su:nɑ:mi:/ , from Japanese 津波.[3]

etc.[4]

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