Pronouncing Spanish - start at the beginning (Z)

This letter is not the beginning but the end of this series. If you've been following it, you might just remember that we were rudely interrupted by impecunity on Thursday 11th with the letter O, which was the last you will have seen. However, we have now caught up with ourselves and the rest of the letters are now appearing daily where they were supposed to, so go back to O to refresh your memory. As for Z, the dictionary calls it a fricative, interdental, voiceless consonant in Spain, but that's the complicated way of saying that it's pronounced like the English TH, as in 'the'. In some parts of Andalucia and most of South America, it is pronounced like an S. Prospero, who was brought up in South America, finds it easier when in Spain to use the S sound, or he has to 'see' the word in his mind to know how to pronounce it. We are unaware of their being any ZCoches in Spain, and the series was unlikely to have been shown in Franco's time.